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Cargando... Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetimepor Aubrey D. N. J. De Grey
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Endless Ageing: to what end?: If worn-out human parts can be replaced and a person can live to be 300 to 400 years, won't only the very rich be able to afford this technology? What economic chaos there would be if everybody could get a life extension. We're running out of Social Security monies now, jobs are being exported daily. How would a 300-year old person earn enough to eat. What about the overpopulation issue? The mexicans are reproducing at 5 times the rate of everyone else in America. Add to this the undead created by Endless Ageing technology and you get a lot of people that need jobs in order to economically sustain life. Would a 400 year old want to learn spanish. Would the oldsters want to move to India to answer phones. Lets get serious. The authors need a brain replacement NOW. "SENS" -- Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, with hoped-for success a few decades hence. Numbingly detailed. A cynic might say the book is a big long infomercial. The reader is exhorted to donate to the Methuselah Foundation, which happens to be headed by de Grey. One of the "plaudits" on the back of the dust jacket, astonishingly enough, says "this man could be put in jail with reasonable cause." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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MUST WE AGE? A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging. Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from "60 Minutes" to "The New York Times, " Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely--technology that would not only slow but periodically "reverse" age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future--is now within reach. In "Ending Aging, " Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)612.68Technology Medicine and health Human physiology Reproduction; Development; Maturation LongevityClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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de Grey does an excellent job with both, but I feel misses entirely the social and political impact of his goals. ( )