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more about #raykurzweil Starwatcher: Ahem. Anyone here ever read the short story "Hothouse Flowers" by Michael Resnick? more » Klebert L. Hall: Let's hope they're wrong. Otherwise, expect several decades of enhanced bloodbath. -Kle. more » Valkyrie Ice: As a member of the Immortality Institute ( Imminst.org) allow me to add a little fact to this fluff piece. Fact: The cost of elderly care is the sing... more » Samantha Vick: The only way immortality, or near-immortality, is viable is if it comes in conjunction with the colonization of other planets. Soon enough we're going... more » TPL2008: If people lived indefinitely then the world would socially stagnate or collapse. Think about old social ideals generally die with the generations tha... more » MarianoCrivelli: @all: my hovercraft is full of eels! more » Platypus Man: See, I'm reading through Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire, which deals extensively with the idea of life extension and... it's not exactly a great world... ... more » Chuck: Unsurprisingly, the older I get, the more this interests me. Once they get this worked out, then they need to figure out how to reverse it, because I... more » SalParadise: I predict that extending the human lifespan will spell the death of scientific progress. Think about it: where do all of the revolutionary ideas come... more » Golem100: We'll know that immortality has been achieved when the government bans further research. more » VEXisGaY?: "Shouldn't we spend our resources feeding the hungry, rather than keeping people alive longer?" Well if people could control ones private parts and n... more » Golem100: Hmm, capture your Asphix and you can live forever. Bad thing is, you keep aging. [www.imdb.com] more » Dirk Anger: How will they keep everyone from developing cancer/heart disease? more » Bill-Lee: Will we live so long that we'll eventually metamorph into a bunch of cicadas? more » frankenstoen: What's the point of living forever if runaway global warming releases all of the methane frozen on the ocean floor and turns our planet into the ident... more » CodenameV: Look, if its like Star Trek, where people live to be 130 but stay "productive" well into their 90's, I'm all for it: what if 80 becomes the new 40? ... more » Strakus: Sigh. The Singularians continue to baffle me. It's not that I a priori think the evidence suggests that anything they hope the future will deliver is ... more » GreyHammer: extend life with what kind of standard of living? i dont want to be old and incapable but kept alive. also sustaining people who live over a hundred y... more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Maximum Life Foundation sounds like a marketing campaign for AXE Body Spray. more » EdificeComplex: "Besides, our planet can accommodate over 6 billion more people before resources are taxed." I'd be interested to see what they base that number on. ... more » -
#lifeexpectancy
Near-Immortality Within the Next 20 Years? Life-Extension Scientists Hope So
Researchers at the Maximum Life Foundation met recently to discuss their latest anti-aging findings. Their goal is to extend the human lifespan indefinitely by 2029... though it's not yet clear how that'll actually work. More » -
#mondayhate
The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
Why is John Tierney so skeptical, and yet so gullible? The New York Times' science columnist is one of the most vocal global-warming doubters in the media, but when it comes to Ray Kurzweil's Singularity and geo-hacking, he's suddenly wide-eyed. More » -
#quoteoftheday
The Nature Of Humanity Is To Change Nature
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has a simple response to people concerned that technology gives us the chance to alter nature: Nature is inherently flawed, and it's our duty as human beings to use technology to fix it. More » -
#singularityuniversity
In The Future, Cyborg Singers Will Be Our Teachers
The man in charge of Google's new university plans to become a cyborg and dreams of the day when he can fulfill his fantasy of being a female rock singer. Where can I sign up? More »
