From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 22:36:31 MDT
From: Spike [mailto:spike66@comcast.net]
> Yet another of our pet topics gone mainstream:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/19/aging/index.html
>
>
> "...SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Fancy living
> another 100 years or more? Some experts said on Saturday that
> scientific advances will one day enable humans to last
> decades beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the
> human life span.
>
> "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 worry that loud public statements of
this sort without a solid scientific basis are more harmful than
helpful.
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