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OK, so part of what I was referring to was the fact that I've been revisiting some earlier thoughts about aging and clinical immortality, topics to which Singularity thinking is often interlinked and with good reason.
While performing some insomnia-fueled Wikipedia wandering just now, I found that in 2004 Ray Kurzweil, the author of one of the books I was thinking of in my previous post, co-authored another book called Fantastic Voyage. It specifically encourages middle-aged and younger people to take up a longevity-boosting regimen now so that they'll be alive while technological progress, advancing at the exponential rate that Kurzwell believes that it is, slows down and finally vanquishes human aging.
The book has a website, and so far I have only skimmed the overwhelmingly long chapter-by-chapter outline that is posted there. I see enough to whet my curiosity to read more. I also see a banner ad for a line of "longevity products" that the authors sell under their own tagline. More drumming of fingers. But still... here is something exactly filling an informational niche I was looking for, and can I blame a bit of entrepreneurial spirit on the side?
Quite reasonably, the bulk of their advice involves diet, and it largely seems to overlap with the low-carb, low/no-sugar diets that many of my friends already practice. Alas, it looks "diffcult" to a lazy lout like me. Like many people in my civilization, my current diet is based on a philosophy of maximum convenience and fast energy bursting. You could caricature my ideal meal as a loaf of corn-battered Wonder bread soaked in coffee and dunked in powdered sugar. Delivered piping hot to my door! Mmmm.
All these delights would be out the door in Ray and Terry's scheme. Just the thought of bidding farewell to my coffee seems difficult enough. (At least they subscribe to the moderate-alcohol-is-good school.) But I've been awake too long so I think I'll drink a tall cool glass of filtered tap water and consider this further in the near future. Maybe, meh, over some coffee.
While performing some insomnia-fueled Wikipedia wandering just now, I found that in 2004 Ray Kurzweil, the author of one of the books I was thinking of in my previous post, co-authored another book called Fantastic Voyage. It specifically encourages middle-aged and younger people to take up a longevity-boosting regimen now so that they'll be alive while technological progress, advancing at the exponential rate that Kurzwell believes that it is, slows down and finally vanquishes human aging.
The book has a website, and so far I have only skimmed the overwhelmingly long chapter-by-chapter outline that is posted there. I see enough to whet my curiosity to read more. I also see a banner ad for a line of "longevity products" that the authors sell under their own tagline. More drumming of fingers. But still... here is something exactly filling an informational niche I was looking for, and can I blame a bit of entrepreneurial spirit on the side?
Quite reasonably, the bulk of their advice involves diet, and it largely seems to overlap with the low-carb, low/no-sugar diets that many of my friends already practice. Alas, it looks "diffcult" to a lazy lout like me. Like many people in my civilization, my current diet is based on a philosophy of maximum convenience and fast energy bursting. You could caricature my ideal meal as a loaf of corn-battered Wonder bread soaked in coffee and dunked in powdered sugar. Delivered piping hot to my door! Mmmm.
All these delights would be out the door in Ray and Terry's scheme. Just the thought of bidding farewell to my coffee seems difficult enough. (At least they subscribe to the moderate-alcohol-is-good school.) But I've been awake too long so I think I'll drink a tall cool glass of filtered tap water and consider this further in the near future. Maybe, meh, over some coffee.
Re: the soy issue
Mm... vegan liver. :b
Re: the soy issue
correction