“Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.” ―Jochen Zeitz
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In January of 2017 the first two episodes of Seeking Delphi™ featured David Wood, chair of the London Futurists, on his book The Abolition of Aging. Wood’s newest effort, Sustainable Superabundance: A Universal Transhumanist Invitation, is an apt follow-up. It deals with the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead; it maps out his preferred scenarios for a better world, while warning about the dangers of making a worse one. David joins me in this episode for a discussion of some the key ideas in his new book.
And…exactly what happens if you build better mice? Genetic editing seems to be making many strides in that direction. The only question left is, will it ultimately make better people?
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Is nothing sacred? A year after World Team Tennis went to all-automated line calls, Major League Baseball is upping the robotic ante with a potential move to eliminate the human factor in calling balls and strikes. The human factor of a Billy Martin or Leo Durocher kicking dirt on an umpire was largely eliminated with the advent of replay reviews. Who knows where this will lead?
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Is artificial human memory possible? Today’s lead story deals exactly with that possibility–and it links rather directly to a question I have about the quest to end, and even reverse, human aging. If we live indefinitely, will we need some sort of artificial enhancement in order to hold decades or evern centuries of additional memories? When you reach a certain age, after all, it’s hard enough to remember what you had for breakfast.
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Aging Research/Rejuvenation–Aubrey de Grey has become much more upbeat about the progress being made toward reversing human aging. He now thinks robust human longevity extension could be here by 2037. You can here his preview of the 2019 Undoing Aging conference (Berlin, Germany March 28-30) on the Seeking Delphi podcast here. The YouTube slide show version of the interview is embedded at the bottom of this page.
Being in the category that society generally classifies as “old people,” I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry when I look at the cartoon to the left. But if the science progresses fast enough, and I live long enough, maybe I’ll see the day when I can just ignore it. As the increasingly global movement to reverse human aging gains momentum, we might see the day when everyone works like they are in their 20’s, no matter how old they are. In this special edition podcast Aubrey de Grey returns to Seeking Delphi™ to preview the 2019 Undoing Aging conference, to be held in Berlin, Germany, March 28-30. Aubrey previously was on Seeking Delphi™ in December of 2017, episode #19.
I’ll be attending the conference, look for me if you go.
