Newspaper RSS Feeds
Bluedog Limited points out Media Drop‘s list of newspapers with RSS feeds.
Hey, yah!, more stuff to add to the reading list.
Bluedog Limited points out Media Drop‘s list of newspapers with RSS feeds.
Hey, yah!, more stuff to add to the reading list.
There is a guy named Aubrey de Grey who makes some fairly strong arguments that significant human life extension is achievable between 25 and 100 years from now and that it is funding that will make the difference between the low and high end of the range.
So, on the off chance that he is right, let’s make sure he gets adequate funding to achieve the short end of the range. It will take just a fraction of the trillions of dollars involved in Social Security over the next 50-60 years, heck, even a small fraction of this years deficit would likely be enough.
If he is successful then we can convert those future retirees back into into productive participants in the economy and they can support themselves and in the process provide us the option of eliminating the social security system and other retirement plans. There should be significant reductions in age related health care costs as well.
Not everyone thinks de Grey is playing in a full deck or that his goals are admirable. In this Technology Review article popular author and former surgeon Sherwin Nuland sums up a lengthy interview with de Grey by suggesting:
If we are to be destroyed, I am now convinced that it will not be a netural or malevolent force that will do us in, but one that is benevolent in the extreme… If we are ever immolated, it will be by the efforts of well-meaning scientists …I do recommend the article if you are not familiar with de Grey and his work.
It is a good thing that his grand design will almost certainly not succeed. Were it otherwise he would surely destroy us in attempting to preserve us.