Saturday, April 11, 2009

I hope Aubrey De Grey is right, but somehow...

My body is slowly decaying. It is losing its ability to fight disease. I don't have any particularly nasty type of illness (that I know of) - I am talking about natural age-related decline, the type that we all must deal with sooner or later. Even today, I spent some quality time over at the emergency room - being prodded, probed (ouch!) and medicated.

This video of a Ted talk by Aubrey De Grey gives me some hope that perhaps some of us could be spared the unpleasantness of aging and dying. Is Mr. De Grey a crackpot, or a genius? At the very least, he's intelligent, funny and provocative.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html

-BT

2 comments:

  1. Hi there,

    Aubrey de Grey is only one out of many life extension researchers out there. There's a huge possibility that radical life extension may occur in our lifetimes if you're young now. The TED Talk you mentioned is great.

    CalebZ

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  2. Thanks for stopping by, CalebZ. I hope we are young enough for eternal life :) when's the cutoff I wonder?

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