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Today's Brew __________________ Ageless

Epiphany at Morningside
Coming to grips with the stark reality of aging

My regular readers are aware of the imminence of serious rejuvenation treatments and where I think we are headed—I've reviewed Kurzweil's books, Fantastic Voyage and The Singularity is Near.  I've commented on the "insurance" angle that Robert Ettinger's breathtaking body of work on cryonics represents—the book(s) and the movement.  I'm not going to stand on my soap box (again), but I do wonder why human consciousness has held back so far in terms of embracing these literally life-saving technologies.  From the purely technical and scientific standpoint, probably Dr. Aubrey De Grey and his SENS concept (strategies for engineering negligible senescence) are as close as anything to breaking through the collective unconscious.... [more]

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