Comments on: Nanotechnology for life extension goes mainstream http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Dan Pop http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-447421 Dan Pop Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:32:44 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-447421 All Immortalists may contact me at e-mail danpop77@yahoo.com Daniel All Immortalists may contact me at e-mail danpop77@yahoo.com
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]]> By: eric http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-334971 eric Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:46:01 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-334971 What a great article. Its too bad that its most likely that people that already have a bent toward indefinite life spans are probably the only ones reading this but, whatever. Hopefully at least 50 people stumble upon this. Life, healthy life, I cant beleive we have to argue for it. What a great article. Its too bad that its most likely that people that already have a bent toward indefinite life spans are probably the only ones reading this but, whatever. Hopefully at least 50 people stumble upon this. Life, healthy life, I cant beleive we have to argue for it.

]]> By: Jim Craig http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-334909 Jim Craig Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:29:23 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-334909 It's inevitable really. The human imagination is very capable of tackling the complexity of biology to a point where it is fully reverse engineered from genome to disease endpoint. The tools to do so are evolving at this very moment and they are getting faster and better by the day. Supercomputing technology, high-throughput lab devices and more sophisticated parallel software algorithms will lead to near perfect simulations of biological networks and allow us to engineer targeted therapies that are very cost effective. This isn't the flying car or floating cities hype of the past. Universities around the world are working on stem cells, gene therapy, informatics technology, protein folding, nanotechnology and numerous lab-automation techniques are advancing so rapidly that it's likely that by 2050 just about every disease will be wiped from populations that can afford general health care. This includes all of the aging diseases and damage that plague the elderly. The results will be significantly longer lifespans. Technology will not stops it's march either so the trend will endlessly continue towards longer lifespans. I don't buy into the doom and gloom scenarios associated with longer lifespans. We have doubled lifespans in the past 100 years and nobody blinked an eye. I believe that with longer lifespans we will choose to be better shepherds of our planet and take care to manage the environment, population and strive to use resources more efficiently. It’s inevitable really. The human imagination is very capable of tackling the complexity of biology to a point where it is fully reverse engineered from genome to disease endpoint. The tools to do so are evolving at this very moment and they are getting faster and better by the day. Supercomputing technology, high-throughput lab devices and more sophisticated parallel software algorithms will lead to near perfect simulations of biological networks and allow us to engineer targeted therapies that are very cost effective.

This isn’t the flying car or floating cities hype of the past. Universities around the world are working on stem cells, gene therapy, informatics technology, protein folding, nanotechnology and numerous lab-automation techniques are advancing so rapidly that it’s likely that by 2050 just about every disease will be wiped from populations that can afford general health care. This includes all of the aging diseases and damage that plague the elderly. The results will be significantly longer lifespans. Technology will not stops it’s march either so the trend will endlessly continue towards longer lifespans.

I don’t buy into the doom and gloom scenarios associated with longer lifespans. We have doubled lifespans in the past 100 years and nobody blinked an eye. I believe that with longer lifespans we will choose to be better shepherds of our planet and take care to manage the environment, population and strive to use resources more efficiently.

]]> By: mark harrington http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333672 mark harrington Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:30:56 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333672 I'm very sceptical of anyone who alludes to immortality via technology or pharamceuticals. It smacks of "Snake Oil", and get rich quick schemes. As a nation we leap on to new technologies without careful consideration of the environmental health costs. Remember in the 60's when atom bombs were tested without reasonable precautions and engineers planned to use the bombs to make harbors etc... Newer, bigger, faster.... is not always better. In the 60's we were also promised that we would have lives of leisure through technological innovation. This has also proved to be untrue. We have much more stress, and less leisure time in our lives then we did in the 60's and 70's. I’m very sceptical of anyone who alludes to immortality via technology or pharamceuticals. It smacks of “Snake Oil”, and get rich quick schemes.

As a nation we leap on to new technologies without careful consideration of the environmental health costs. Remember in the 60′s when atom bombs were tested without reasonable precautions and engineers planned to use the bombs to make harbors etc… Newer, bigger, faster…. is not always better. In the 60′s we were also promised that we would have lives of leisure through technological innovation. This has also proved to be untrue. We have much more stress, and less leisure time in our lives then we did in the 60′s and 70′s.

]]> By: Brian Wang http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333623 Brian Wang Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:55:21 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333623 I believe that Dr. Gupta shifted to highlighted the more optimistic aspects of his view. In his book which I skimmed he indicated that Kurzweil and nanomedicine had inspired him to look at new tech, he ended up believing that there was a long way to go there. In the book, he focused on more mainstream behaviors and technology for improving health. I think he is open to the idea that the more powerful technology and research could work. The Life Extension magazine was an article for a particular audience where it was safe for him to speculate. He may have talked to some people between the writing of the book and the writing of the article. Gupta is not leading the charge for more agressive funding and work on life extension tech. Perhaps his next book or appearances in CNN will see such a shift, but not yet. I believe that Dr. Gupta shifted to highlighted the more optimistic aspects of his view. In his book which I skimmed he indicated that Kurzweil and nanomedicine had inspired him to look at new tech, he ended up believing that there was a long way to go there. In the book, he focused on more mainstream behaviors and technology for improving health.
I think he is open to the idea that the more powerful technology and research could work. The Life Extension magazine was an article for a particular audience where it was safe for him to speculate.
He may have talked to some people between the writing of the book and the writing of the article.

Gupta is not leading the charge for more agressive funding and work on life extension tech. Perhaps his next book or appearances in CNN will see such a shift, but not yet.

]]> By: Koofoo http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333424 Koofoo Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:29:24 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333424 oh no!!! We must not build self replicating nanomachines or life extension devices! The race of man will overpopulate the aerth and we shall all perish in a flood of flesh and technomachinery! nanomachines will eat and eat and eat their way through everyone and gobble the world up in a mass of pure covalent carbon networks! oh no! oh no! transhumanists will consider themselves superior to the rest of us bio humans and want to exterminate us or use us as their pets! oh no! oh no! but I would sure love a good solid nano replicator machine Christine Peterson and Foresight! oh no!!! We must not build self replicating nanomachines or life extension devices! The race of man will overpopulate the aerth and we shall all perish in a flood of flesh and technomachinery! nanomachines will eat and eat and eat their way through everyone and gobble the world up in a mass of pure covalent carbon networks! oh no! oh no! transhumanists will consider themselves superior to the rest of us bio humans and want to exterminate us or use us as their pets! oh no! oh no!

but I would sure love a good solid nano replicator machine Christine Peterson and Foresight!

]]> By: John M http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333387 John M Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:12:22 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2538#comment-333387 I'm surprised to hear of him saying that, if he said that on-air he would be looking for a new job though.. oh well, it won't be "fringe" when CNN is reporting the birth of a child with an estimated 150 year lifespan in the not too distant future.. I’m surprised to hear of him saying that, if he said that on-air he would be looking for a new job though.. oh well, it won’t be “fringe” when CNN is reporting the birth of a child with an estimated 150 year lifespan in the not too distant future..

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