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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

TEDxNEWYORK 8/18/09 Aubrey de Grey (2006)



In keeping with TED's penchant for out-of-the-box thinkers and iconoclasts (the nice kind of iconoclasts), here's Aubrey. If the accent is a little difficult, there's the transcript at this link (and the transcriptions are open-source, interactive... and translatable if you're multi-lingual, willing & able to help, btw.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM

    It was a really interesting talk and an interesting concept to ponder living until 1000. The one really positive thing that I see as a result is that it just might inform our decision making process a whole lot better. We would make decisions based on the long term effects instead of the short term as we so often seem to do now. Perhaps action to curb global warming would be practiced on a much quicker and larger scale. I am not convinced, however, just yet that living to be 1000 years old could create more solutions than problems.

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  2. curiously chel, an optimistic o'reillyAugust 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    Timely, Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18aging.html

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  3. stacy marAugust 21, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    Thanks for posting that Proparoxytone. Did you see:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-judith-rich/would-you-want-to-live-to_b_260774.html

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