How To Live Forever

from the it-helps-to-like-yourself dept

Wired has two articles about a recent on living forever. The first looks at what scientific areas people are looking at to make life extension possible. It's the ususal culprits: cloning, nutrition, and nanotechnology. Those involved seem a bit more optimistic than others about the possibilities of these technologies. The second article looks at what type of people are interested in living forever, and what their reasons are. It seems different people have different reasons - and all of them are incredibly optimistic about their chances.

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    dorpus, 20 Nov 2002 @ 12:54pm

    Job security for hucksters

    Guarantees of permanent life -- the world's second oldest profession?

    Would anyone want to live to be 200 years old, probably horribly crippled and shunned as a freak by the rest of society? Nothing like being treated like a museum specimen by historians, anthropologists, and whoever else.

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