Re: cnn's take on aging

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 01:14:00 MDT

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    On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:36:31PM -0700, Ramez Naam wrote:
    > > "I think we are knocking at the door of immortality," said
    > > Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor
    > > and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we
    > > will see it and that's a conservative estimate..."
    >
    > I was actually rather uncomfortable with this. Zey made this
    > pronouncement without any real scientific grounding. (I saw his talk
    > at World Future Society this weekend, where John Smart, Jose Cordeiro,
    > and I were also speaking.)

    I got a rather weird impression of Zey when I heard him a few years
    back. I even have his book, and was struck by how jetsoninan it was - it
    was all about a future of energy and powerful transportation, very
    little bio/nano/it. It was simply oldfashioned.

    Maybe he has got better, but there is still plenty of "the future is
    faster, more efficient and bigger, but deep down the same" among
    futurists.

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