Complexity Digest 2003.44 - 14.02

03-Nov-2003

High-Tech Daydreamers Investing In Immortality, NYTimes Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: He is a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, in England, and his prophecy was straightforward if hard to believe: Getting old and dying are engineering problems. Aging can be reversed and death defeated. People already alive will live a thousand years or longer. He was at pains to argue that what he calls "negligible senescence," and what the average person would call living forever, is inevitable. His proposed war on aging, he said, is intended to make it happen sooner and make it happen right.