Can taking supplements allow you to live hundreds of years? Then with new technologies allow you to be immortal..Some very smart people think so..
The head of Google’s new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life - no wonder he is so optimistic
“People very often don’t realize how far we’ve come. Think of the improvements that we’ve seen: human life expectancy was 37 in 1800, 48 in 1900 ...” And in 2035?
It’s all getting a little too weird, .
With the completion of the human genome, he says, health and medicine have become a branch of information technology. “We have now the software of life - the code that underlines it. We have tools now to change the software. How often do you go without updating the software on your cellphone? Probably not more than a couple of weeks as it updates automatically. When was the last time you updated the software running in your body? It is out of date.”
In the land of Kurzweil, the possibility of reprogramming the body is not a dry academic theory, it is a blueprint for how to lead your life.
That’s why he has a cabinet covered in vitamin boxes, including those anti-ageing packs. He has turned himself into a living medical experiment with the hope - more than that, the expectation - that it will allow him to live far into the distant future and perhaps forever. Every day he takes about 150 supplements with the aim of reprogramming his biochemistry. Once a week he spends a day at a health clinic having particular compounds fed into him intravenously.
What on earth does he do that for? The answer is that though he turned 61 on Thursday, he believes that physically he is preserving himself to be much younger. “How old am I really? I’ve stayed around 40. I was 38 biologically when I was 40, and I’m 40 or 41 today. There is a biological ageing test and that’s what it registers for me.”
“People ask me whether I think taking all these supplements will allow me to live hundreds of years. No. The point is only to stay in good shape another 15 years or so before we have developed the ability to reprogram our biology through nanotechnology using nanobots - blood-cell sized devices in our bloodstream that will keep us healthy.”
Does he really want to live forever? Wouldn’t the thrill of life start to fade after a few thousand years or so?
Kurzweil’s new book Transcend 9 Steps to Living Well Forever has published the first three chapters free at the link below..Live Well and Prosper..
I woke this morning and took a pill that supposedly has more antioxidant power than 200 bottles of wine.and is suppose to add 10 years to your life…I started to wonder what other supplements did I need to take to live long enough to get the Nano probes that will make me immortal…I was reading by 2035 we will have a technology that hard wires your brain to a terminal and you will be able to have complete real life experience..Can’t wait…after I have sex with Marilyn Monroe..I’m going to fly to Kolob and have lunch with Jesus..
Piffy there are 2.3 billion Christians walking the straight and narrow so they can have a chance at eternal life..they can’t all be wrong..
our culture is just afraid of death.
What else is there to be afraid of? I’m not really afraid of death.. it’s the rotting of my flesh in a pine box into a substance that looks like monkey drool..that seems harsh..
just die already, there’s a billion or so people clamoring for room over in the third world.
That’s why I’m inviting 100,000 refugees over for thanksgiving this year..Being alive guilt..
More importantly, why would someone want to have virtual sex with Marylin Monroe when there is Isla Fisher?
I’m so glad you posted that pic..I had not chose a virtual girlfriend for this evening..she is fricking lovely..You can have her back when I’m done..
Haha, I’m with Richey. It seems like life would certainly take on a whole different meaning, if we were able to live thousands of years. Plus.. wouldn’t the earth get totally messed with within a few hundreds years? (having thousands and thousands of extra people on it..)
Haha, I’m with Richey. It seems like life would certainly take on a whole different meaning, if we were able to live thousands of years. Plus.. wouldn’t the earth get totally messed with within a few hundreds years? (having thousands and thousands of extra people on it..)
Weird thoughts..
Hey jenny welcome…Lets just Imagine that…the Ice caps have melted and we have floating cities everywhere..with these cool virtual theaters where you can hook up to virtual life experiences that interact with your memory and every whim you’ve ever thought about could become a reality..lots of food, time off, sex, we can fly, explore the oceans in our personal submarines..sounds kinda fun ? Huh? Take those vitamins..
