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Radical Life Extension Circa 2008

Date and Time: Saturday, March 01, 2008 from 3:00pm until 5:00pm MST

Location: Mesa Bookmans, 1056 S. Country Club Dr., Mesa, AZ 85210 | Google Maps

Description: The recent book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey with Michael Rae discusses the SENS approach to slowing down, repairing, and eventually eliminating the effects of aging, and then someday eliminating aging entirely. Is this approach any different than the fountains of youth proclaimed throughout recorded human history? Why are some people more convinced than ever before that defeating death is within our grasps, perhaps within mere decades?

Even if you do not support radical life extension research, or you think any real breakthroughs are centuries away, you owe it to yourself to follow along with a debate that rages from the world's laboratories to political centers like Washington, D.C., from the pages of prominent science journals to the online life extensionist, tranhumanist, and related communities. Why have critics abandoned mockery and outright dismissal of radical life extension to instead focused on new laws, policies, and veiled threats of forced deaths should the elderly live too much longer than average? Find out just were research and understanding are at today, circa 2008, and join in the discussion.

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Cambridge University Transhumanist Society Talk hosted jointly with Trinity College Science Society. Dr. Aubrey de Grey Presents "Prospects for extending healthy life - a lot"

Date and Time: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 8:00pm GMT

Location: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge, England

Description: Abstract:

It may seem premature to be discussing approaches to the effective elimination of human aging as a cause of death at a time when essentially no progress has yet been made in even postponing it. However, two aspects of human aging combine to undermine this assessment. The first is that aging is happening to us throughout our lives but only results in appreciable functional decline after four or more decades of life: this shows that we can postpone the functional decline caused by aging arbitrarily well without knowing how to prevent aging completely, but instead by increasingly thorough molecular and cellular repair. The second is that the typical rate of refinement of dramatic technological breakthroughs is rather reliable (so long as public enthusiasm for them is abundant) and is fast enough to change such technologies (be they in medicine, transport, or computing) almost beyond recognition within a natural human lifespan. In this talk I will explain, first, why (presuming adequate funding for the initial preclinical work) therapies that can add 30 healthy years to the remaining lifespan of healthy 55-year-olds may arrive within the next few decades, and, second, why those who benefit from those therapies will very probably continue to benefit from progressively improved therapies indefinitely and thus avoid debilitation or death from age-related causes at any age.