On Damien Broderick's new book, "The Last Mortal Generation": I just finished reading it - very enlightening, thankyou Damien! In fact, it's how I found out about transhumanism, then extropians, then this list.
Actually, I'll ask an unrelated question of people at this point.
I decided quite a while ago that I would like to live a bit longer than three score and ten. I was convinced that science will be able to deliver this before it becomes an issue for me. Then I found out about Damien's book, because I'd been using the same phrase (last mortal generation), and someone pointed me to the book.
How, after all, can it sound? I'm in my late twenties, and talking about
how it's a travesty that people die, a pointless waste, and a violation
of human rights which must be rectified, probably in the later half of
next century, so I'll have to hang on tooth&nail to life until my
mortality problem can be fixed up. Blah blah blah, I'm sure many of us
go on with the same stuff.
How insulting is this to a person of, say, 80 years? Really, I'm writing
them of, as part of the doomed past, so near and yet so far. It makes me
feel like a heel, and yet my opinions about immortality (I love the
loaded words) has not changed.
Emlyn