The 27th of July 2011, On Science, discovery Through the Wormhole 2: episode 8, the team is tackling the intriguing question on ‘can we life forever?’ Here is a short snapshot on how episode 8 (Can We Live forever?). Over the past centuries, human life expectancy has doubled. This is a target already met, but [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil, was interviewed recently in TIME, and he quoted, “The human civilization, as we all know it, will come to an end by 2045”. He believes that we’ll be facing a moment sooner where computers will become more intelligent than humans. This may affect the human body and mind as well [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 12, 2011
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Based upon Life span figures, humans are surviving for a longer period than any other moment in time. The fact is that in less than one hundred years we have added an additional thirty or so years to our combined life expectancy. We are literally manufacturing old age and it is claimed that this is [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Imagine a world where car turning blinkers are never turned off. Being afraid of a world of aged drivers, not to mention all the other resources an older population would take over. These anxieties are ridiculous but there is a camp out there that believes those who wish to live forever are being selfish and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 5, 2011
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The life span of humans in the developing nations is rising but some experts believe we are only scratching the surface of increased life expectancy. Aubrey de Grey, respected Geneticist from Cambridge University thinks that one thousand years is a reasonable expectation – and sooner than later. He says that aging is a physical occurrence [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 4, 2011
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Just consider for a moment an artificially intelligent [AI] human, given the same privileges as a genuine human but not being burdened by the restricted longevity ordinary humans must contend with. They would hold the capability to accumulate wealth and resources for itself ad infinitum. As humans we do not tend to live for any [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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The discovery of the HeLa cell line has promoted remarkable biomedical research. It has contributed to the development of polio vaccine and even vitro fertilization. The indefinite force of these cells is present in the cell’s potential to proliferate and grow indefinitely. The fascinating thing is that few people know that these cells originally came [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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This article is an adaptation of Marios Kyriaziz explanation on Human biological Immortality. The article describes how Human Biological Immortality will turn out to be a direct result of natural evolution. This natural process can be accelerated in various ways like via the concept of ELPIs (Extreme Lifespan Through Perpetual-Equalising Interventions). Marios Kyriazis MD, Biomedical [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 30, 2010
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Birthday candles might have to be placed on the table on birthday cake as average life expectancy keeps ascending. Average life expectancy for Americans is 78. However, children born today can expect to live much further than that or maybe for an eternity. Scientific experts are predicting that in a few years ahead, virtual immortality [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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If scientists are ever going to figure out how to live prolonged and healthy lives, they are going to need to break down the exact number of genes that exist in us humans. They still really have no idea how many genetic elements are required to contrive a human being. One number raised is humans have twenty [...]
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
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