Aubrey de Grey

the site, we can find many a great performances where it is obvious that the speaker had a great effect on the audience and also where the audience wasn’t very much influenced. On the topic of aging and general health, there were two speeches by Aubrey de Grey’s and Dan Buettner, and we will be comparing these two speeches together No great speech can be created without a good hook. Unfortunately, it seems like neither of them really created a great hook. They failed to really capture the attention

non-biological carriers, extending life to the point of immortality (2045 Strategic Social Initiative: The Russian Millionaire in Search of Immortality).” Dr. Aubrey De Grey, an unconventional academic of Cambridge University, and his wife Adelaide, a genetic researcher also there at Cambridge, suggests they have unlocked the keys to immortality. Dr. De Grey asserts that he has identified “the biological processes responsible for aging,” thus unlocking how to live up to 1,000 years (Schorn). The immortality

The word immortal is hardly heard by one another unless speaking about a fiction movie or character. Immortal or immortality is defined as, eternal life or the ability to live forever. In the film, The Immoratalist, directed by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg conduct a documentary. Containing two completely different individuals, scientists, with the same goal and dream in mind, to find a way to prove that immorality is possible and that it can be achieved in the next decades to come. Although

TED.com is a non-profit organization that hosts lectures from prominent figures throughout the world in an effort to spread ideas to engage critical thought and to change attitudes. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) was a conference that began in 1984 that had widespread success and due to the proliferation, it expanded into becoming one of the most widely recognized informational communities on internet. TED is a non-profit that is owned by the Sapling Foundation, a non-profit itself that

A significant population growth occurred between 1946 and 1964; approximately 76 million people were born in the United States; this group of individuals is known as the “Baby-boom” generation (Dohm, 2000). These individuals now average between the ages of 51-70, and make up a vast majority of those in American whom fall in the late adulthood period of their lives. According to Boyd and Bee (2015, p 418), young old is defined at ages 60-75, old old is 75-85 and oldest old is 85 and older. In the

” explains how and why life expectancies will increase in the future. The author, Kate Kelland, references Aubrey De Grey’s predictions on aging, which is that there may be a large amount of medical control over it in the near future, with people going to their doctors for techniques such as gene therapies, stem cell therapies, and immune system stimulation to keep them healthier. De Grey says that age can be controlled better by repairing molecular and cellular damage before it becomes too harmful

two points, we may not see a single massive life extension breakthrough, and frankly, it's not needed. we only need something to extend our life a little bit, then a little bit more. This wouldn't be "radical" life extension. It would be what Aubrey de Grey describes as "Longevity Escape Velocity". Personally, the life extension projects are misguided as far as I'm concerned. As far as I can tell there are no compelling reasons why humans need to live longer. Unless there is a clear evolutionary

earlier in life (whether it be their own mortality or the possibility of losing their children at a young age) no longer exist in the same way today as it only a few decades ago. Perhaps in a transhumanist future, such as the one described by both Aubrey de Grey and Bill Andrews, it may be common for people to get married in their 50s or have children well into their 40s (depending of course on biological limitations).

battle in the war on death. The main goal of life-extension therapy is to allow for a person to live in a healthful state without the threat of aging or natural death. This is predicted to be achieved by working against what transhumanists such as Aubrey de Grey call the "seven deadly things," such as

The current state of genetically altering life spans is mostly based of the last two decade of research involving animal models. The evidence of the research is showing that aging is more complicated than previously thought. The evidence also shows that the life span of these animal models can be manipulated. There has been an increased effort among researchers to break down the genetic basis of aging, or senescence, which is the harmful side of increasing age. Researchers have made progress with