Ep. 96: FOREVER YOUNG (Anti-Aging & Immortality)
There are two ways that people are trying to make themselves immortal: by stopping aging and by cutting their brain up into little pieces and xeroxing them into a computer. BOTH SOUND EQUALLY PROMISING AND NOT AT ALL DYSTOPIAN. That's what we're talking about this week on the podcast, we hope you dig it
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Sources:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21042/Barbara-Ehrenreich-natural-causes-nickel-and-dimed-imortality-dying
https://theconversation.com/super-intelligence-and-eternal-life-transhumanisms-faithful-follow-it-blindly-into-a-future-for-the-elite-78538
http://theweek.com/articles/718516/technology-could-make-immortal-but-there-consequences
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https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/5/4/15433348/aubrey-de-grey-life-extension-aging-death-science-medicine
