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Immortality: The Hidden Subtext
A friend of mine recently asked me a question. “You’ve been writing a lot about longevity, immortality and life expectancy lately. Is there a hidden subtext?” I stopped for a moment. I had to think about that. I didn’t think … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, biology, death, DNA, future, immortality, lifespan, longevity, mirror life, mortality, mRNA, science
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Beyond Death: When Longer Lives Meet a Finite Planet
One of the comments I received after writing “The Age of Re-engineering: How Science Is Rewriting the Limits of Human Life” sparked a fascinating, if sobering, question. It was both simple and profound: “What happens if we actually succeed? What … Continue reading
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Tagged birth rate, death rate, Dyson Sphere, Dyson Swarm, Earth, elves, environment, generational spacecraft, homesteading, immortality, JRR Tolkien, lifespan, longevity, Mars, medicine, Moon, mortality, overpopulation, population decline, population explosion, recycling, reproduction, science, space, terraforming, Venus
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