technologyreview.com— What if I told you there was a pill that slows aging and allows you to live a healthy life to age 100? Such a pill may exist right now.
Jul 30, 2007View in Crawl 4
It seems like the brain can be kept very flexible when it's exercised (like nearly everything else about the body) which may ward of dementia and keep people "current" and doing new things for a very long time. Maybe stem cells can fight degradation to failure, replace 0.01% of the brain at a time with stem cells that grow new neurons, allow the neurons to 'acclimate', and repeat every so often. We'd need to find much better cancer treatments. Then ancient people can just hang around with all of us getting older and not caring about it once we're plugged into some improved-Matrix and getting busy working out how to fix our longer term problems (sun issues, universal cooling, galactic collisions, etc).
fartagJul 30, 2007
It seems like the brain can be kept very flexible when it's exercised (like nearly everything else about the body) which may ward of dementia and keep people "current" and doing new things for a very long time. Maybe stem cells can fight degradation to failure, replace 0.01% of the brain at a time with stem cells that grow new neurons, allow the neurons to 'acclimate', and repeat every so often. We'd need to find much better cancer treatments. Then ancient people can just hang around with all of us getting older and not caring about it once we're plugged into some improved-Matrix and getting busy working out how to fix our longer term problems (sun issues, universal cooling, galactic collisions, etc).
terr01Jul 30, 2007
Anyone with a beard that extensive sets off my snake-oil-salesman crystal-healing alarm. I'm not sure why.
dodusJul 31, 2007
Time to die.
geezasJul 31, 2007
would have dugg, but it had 847 diggs - my phone's area code ...and I just can't screw it up now can I ;]
subliminalurgeJul 31, 2007
The key is to keep the cells entertained.Everyone knows that aging and death are cause by cellular boredom.