I'm pleased that clinical immortality seems to be a meme on the rise, largely thanks to Aubrey de Grey. I have recently seen his hirsute smile from the cover of several print magazines, and even on Free Republic during one of my self-abusive peeks onto that site (though granted most of the comments were of the "Huh huh his hair is funny; that article shore has a lot of words" variety).
Some science fiction author, with I remembered who, said something like "many a man longs for immortality who doesn't know what to do with himself on a rainy Sunday afternoon"
He is an interesting speaker -- i saw him at pop!tech a few years ago. He is convinced this is a problem that can be solved. And he is looking for relatively modest amounts of money to do the research he says is needed to solve the 8 or so areas of aging to be addressed.
Clinical / virtual / nano immortality schemes are a hobby horse of mine too... just a perverse desire to have more rainy Sunday afternoons to not know what to do with...
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Date: 2005-03-21 06:14 pm (UTC)we'll see, i guess.
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