Holidays provide a fantastic way of channelling peoples’ attention and energy. Most of our holidays are focused on past events or individuals, or on the rhythms of nature. History and nature are wonderful and should be honoured — but the amazing future we are building together should be honoured as well. This future day conference is …...
“I’m not saying let’s live forever,” says Zoltan Istvan, transhumanist author, philosopher, and political candidate. “I think what we want is the choice to be able to live indefinitely. That might be 10,000 years; that might only be 170 years.” Istvan devoted his life to transhumanism after nearly stepping on an old landmine while reporting …...
Dr. José Cordeiro is a member of Nasa’s Singularity University and global think-tank The Millennium Project, and one of an increasing number of researchers encouraging everyone from schoolchildren to business leaders to think big – very big – about the future. He said, do you want mental powers of calculation that make the most powerful …...
A critical note on transhumanist organizational structure. I am always a bit amused upon hearing other people’s concerns about transhumanism and even transhumanists themselves (depicted as influential, intimidating and even dangerous). Although many transhumanist ideas may sound disruptive and revolutionary to the average citizen, transhumanists themselves are far less the doers, but rather passive observers …...
Day to create awareness about Longevity Research on 1st of October (also International Day of older persons) and we’re celebrating Longevity Day this year on the first week of October i.e. 5th October, Sunday during 4:00 PM-8:00 PM (GMT+5:30). So please join us and make it success. List of Speakers for International Online Longevity Day …...
Aging is the primary risk factor for cognitive decline, an emerging health threat to aging societies worldwide. Whether anti-aging factors such as klotho can counteract cognitive decline is unknown. Scientists shows that a lifespan-extending variant of the human KLOTHO gene, KL-VS, is associated with enhanced cognition in heterozygous carriers. Because this allele increased klotho levels in serum and …...
Cryonics is the process of cooling a person at the moment of legal death, in the hopes that future medical technology will have the means and skill to revive that person, overcome illness that caused that death, and overcome the damage of the cooling process. It is based on the principle that medicine is always …...
Death is not a topic that anyone likes to think about, and that is just as true of advocates for longevity science as anyone else. We have to recognize, however, that the future of greatly extended healthy lives, produced by technologies, regenerative medicine, and medical nanotechnology, will not arrive soon enough to benefit everyone but …...
The 12th International Federation on Ageing Global Conference will be held in Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad from the 10th – 13th June 2014. The main themes for the conference will be “Health, Security, Community” http://ifa2014.in/ Hundreds of delegates from all over the world will bring to the forefront various aspects and problems related to ageing, which …...
Every human being has both a minimum and a maximum amount of life hours left to live. If you add together the possible maximum life hours of every living person on the planet, you arrive at a special number: the optimum amount of time for our species to evolve, find happiness, and become the most …...
