Apr 11th, 2005 by Moonage
Time may indeed be on your side. If you can just last another quarter century.
By then, people will start lives that could last 1,000 years or more. Our human genomes will be modified to include the genetic material of microorganisms that live in the soil, enabling us to break down the junk proteins that our cells amass over time and which they can’t digest on their own. People will have the option of looking and feeling the way they did at 20 for the rest of their lives, or opt for an older look if they get bored. Of course, everyone will be required to go in for age rejuvenation therapy once every decade or so, but that will be a small price to pay for near-immortality.
This may sound like science fiction, but Aubrey de Grey thinks this could be our reality in as little as 25 years. Other scientists caution that it is far from clear whether and for how long science can stall the inevitable.
Well, I think it’s not really possible in 25 years. I mean, we’ve known gasoline is a finite resource for 25 years already and nothing’s hardly been done to fix that. Even if they figured the solution, making it feasible is a long way off IMO.
Now, to be fair to the cause, which I would like get a shot at, I’m putting the MPrize logo on the sidebar. That way, when it is accomplished, I’ll be one of the first to know about it.
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Hi - and thanks for putting the plug for the Mprize on your site!
No problem. I do expect dibs on the waiting line when someone does figure it out.
I received this from Mprize:
Good morning,
We at the Methuselah Foundation would like to send you an update on the
newest developments to come our way. It’s a pleasure to know that many around
the world are following our work and it brings great joy to get such great
publicity. We are always eager to reach new people and we’ve seen great
enthusiasm among the blogging community.
I would like to invite you and your commentators to the Open Microphone at
MIT’s Technology Review. Here they want to give Dr. de Grey’s SENS proposal a
proper hearing. So far they had invited Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, another leading
light in the anti-aging community, but alas she declined, citing that she was
unable to offer a proper critique. For the link, go here:
http://pontin.trblogs.com/archives/2005/05/cynthia_kenyon_1.html
Note that the Methuselah Foundation is offering a $5000US honorarium to help
defray the expenses for the biogerontologist that Technology Review selects.
Feel free to publish this message in your blog!
In the meantime, I invite you to contact me personally if you have any
questions or comments you’d like to pass along.
Michael Yamashita, volunteer