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Themes Might You Live a Great Deal Longer?
If this collection of provocative speakers proves even partially right, we may all live to a (very) ripe old age.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees body and brain enhancements leading to an extended human tenure on Earth -- and beyond. Surgeon and chemical engineer Alan Russell, meanwhile, asks: "If newts can regenerate a lost limb, why can't we?" And Aubrey de Grey, icon of the life extension movement, gives a challenging talk that may convince you that aging will soon become optional.
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Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
18:21 Posted: Jun 2011
Views: 560,109 | Comments: 110
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Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
17:24 Posted: Mar 2011
Views: 953,654 | Comments: 178
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Gary Wolf: The quantified self
05:10 Posted: Sep 2010
Views: 364,320 | Comments: 128
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Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things
14:08 Posted: Sep 2010
Views: 424,930 | Comments: 146
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Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
19:01 Posted: Apr 2010
Views: 878,321 | Comments: 2057
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Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine
16:58 Posted: Feb 2010
Views: 475,836 | Comments: 97
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Anthony Atala: Growing new organs
17:52 Posted: Jan 2010
Views: 927,292 | Comments: 134
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Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+
19:39 Posted: Jan 2010
Views: 1,324,990 | Comments: 230
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Marc Pachter: The art of the interview
20:54 Posted: Dec 2009
Views: 265,004 | Comments: 52
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Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
17:40 Posted: Oct 2009
Views: 954,014 | Comments: 109
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