Posted on 05/28/2016 11:00:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’d be easy to miss the unobtrusive brown door to Joon Yun’s second floor office, tucked away next to a dry cleaners and a hair salon in downtown Palo Alto, California. But the address itself speaks loud enough.
Four-hundred-seventy University Avenue is located in the heart of a neighborhood that holds a special place in the lore of Silicon Valley start-up culture. A few minutes’ walk away are the early homes of PayPal, Facebook, and Google. Yet the early ambitions of these famous companies are modest when compared to the ideas I’ve come to discuss with Yun.
I’ve been led here by Sonia Arrison, a Silicon Valley local and author of 100-Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith. Arrison has agreed to show me around her strange Californian world, populated with very wealthy, very smart dreamers, who share her certainty that a longevity revolution is on its way. We’ve arrived on Yun’s doorstep to learn how and why he, along with a small group of big power players, plan to “cure” aging and extend human health span—and possibly even human life—by decades, if not centuries.
For Yun, a dapper, 40-something physician and prominent Silicon Valley money manager, the origins of his quixotic dream date back to his time as an undergrad at Harvard University....
(Excerpt) Read more at nautil.us ...
Physical immortality is almost at hand.
What a shame that immorality makes society as a whole totally unfit for such a power.
Any society that condones the murder of their own children through abortion should not be granted to power to live forever...IMO
We are UNFIT.
What a damned shame...
Beam me up..
Good post 2DV.
You always find the best stuff :-)
Immortality to me, sounds like perpetual ennui.
The good news is that they’re going to crack aging. The bad news is that 136-year-old Chelsea Clinton will be running for president in 2116.
I do not consider living forever in the current world as it is, to be a wonderful proposition.
I look forward to living forever with God in the new heaven and new earth. That is where you want to live forever. Not now.
The promise of death after disobeying God wasn’t a threat - it turns out to be a promise of grace.
RUSH “Xanadu - Live”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8XEr_DFROc
The song tells the story of a traveler discovering immortality in The Lost Xanadu. He finds it.
At the end he sings:
A thousand years have come and gone
But time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in an everlasting view
Waiting for the world to end
Weary of the night
Praying for the light
Prison of the lost - Xanadu
Immortality will happen, and be heralded as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Much the same way that the containment of infectious disease greatly increased mortality and quality of life for all.
I’d probably work quietly, buying stocks bonds until I had enough to live on. Then I’d go about making the world a better place wherever I am.
I think that would be fun.
Immortality would cause a lot of problems. It will add a lot of older people to the population while reducing the renewing quality of the replacement of older people by children.
"Not yet."
"Wait, what?"
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