FuturePundit reports on a new interview (currently running on Better Humans) with Cambridge University genetecist and life extension visionary Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey offers some reasons why progress in this area isn't happening as fast as some of us would like, but he also adds this hopeful note:
I think there will be only a short interval between the time when we first have genuine life extension treatments and the time when we're improving those treatments faster than we're aging[.]
Randall Parker comments:
There are enough multimillionaire and billionaire philanthropists that all the work could be done with private money if only enough wealthy people became interested. If you know any wealthy people then do us all a favor and send them Aubrey's interview and some of the articles from his web site.
I don't actually know any welathy people, but I'm starting to think that (if I did) it might make more sense to try to persuade them to fund Aubrey's work than it would this project (worthy though it is.)
By the way, speaking of Aubrey, he was the subject of our first-ever Speaking of the Future interview.
Posted by Phil at January 27, 2004 07:17 AM | TrackBack