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Location: Blogs Ran Dai's Life Extension Discussions |
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| Posted by: Ran.Dai |
5/10/2007 12:01 PM |
5 extra hours in a day... enigmatic, I know.
Article: http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=e9427be1-6146-4cca-afe8-fd165dc11601&k=16378
Gist: Contrary to popular belief, there is actually 29 hours in a day.
One caveat: This applies to developed countries only.
Another caveat: You don't get these 5 extra hours until much later, like, at-the-end-of-your-life later.
Another caveat: "The biggest challenge ... is doing everything within our power to make
sure the extra hours, and ultimately the extra years, of life we're
gaining is time we actually want to have."
Listen to this song: "Fitter Happier" by Radiohead. It's
kind of an ironic twist on what I've been saying this whole time, and
what living longer, healthier lives can cost. They make it sound
kind of robotic, but it doesn't have to be that way.
An odd tangent: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/may/HQ_07105_NRA_Solicitations.html
OK, so the article has nothing to do with this, but it made me think of
the theory of relativity... go up, zip around at light speed for 40
years, come back and see civilization 3000 years later (or something; I
haven't done the math). I wonder if you'd be considered
immortal. I also wonder if you'd be wonderfully dull and stupid
as compared to people 3000 years from now.
Back to the article: The greatest thing about technology is that
it grows exponentially. Current technology is used to build the
next technology, so the pace of progress is exponential. This
means immortality, by which I mean longer, more fulfilling lives, is
not as far-fetched as one might imagine, because it is not the
technologies of today that will lead us there; rather, today's
technology will lead us to the technology that will lead us
there. It's like using a simple robot to build a better
robot. Cool huh?
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