On Friday, June 27, 2008 from 4:00 PM through 8:00 PM PDT at UCLA, scientists and other anti-aging luminaries will discuss "Aging: the Disease, the Cure, the Implications," a Methuselah Foundation co-sponsored event. The ADCI event is open to the public and presents an opportunity for you to hear about the current state of radical life extension research. How close are we? What obstacles remain? What particular approaches are being taken?

While the event is free, registration is required. Simply click on the image above to register on the ADCI website. For $30.00, you can also attend a dinner that begins at 8:00 PM.

Why exactly should you attend? One of the goals of h+ Solutions is to show that transhumanism is not just about a far future of robots, nanotechnology, AI, and physical immortality. Instead, it is about what we do today, what breakthroughs are being made today, and what foundations are being built today that are expected to lead to some of these future predictions. One of the best things you can do today is attend these events and learn about what is going on around you.

Attending events like ADCI will give you a valuable perspective that separates you from most other people. I am astonished how many people do not know that several species healthy lifespans have been extended up to 10 times, and that this is actually old news. While the jump to human radical life extension is radically gigantic, the work in other animal models implies that it is not impossible. In fact, the research literature today suggests something incredibly profound about our every day lives in the near future.

Even critics of modern technological progress, transhumanism, and radical life extension have stopped treating these subjects as pie in the sky jokes and are instead treating them as real threats. Whatever your own opinion, you owe it to yourself to pay attention. There is no better way to start doing so than attending public events like ADCI.

This event is followed on Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 by a technically focused Understanding Aging conference. Whether you are local with your own accommodations or traveling and in need of accommodations, there are a variety of registration options. However, the Friday event promises to be the public unveiling of a field of research undergoing rapid and promising progress.