Can love defeat death?
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
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This month's cover edition of National Geographic shows a picture of a baby and the proclamation that this baby will live to 120. I believe they are way off the mark and that any baby being born today (in the developed world at least) has a fighting chance of living forever. I've been meaning to write a blog to crystallize my thoughts on the exponential growth in medical technology and the implications for human health, longevity and society. Heavily influenced by Ray Kurzweil's singularity prediction I see the early signs of embryonic technologies everywhere which combined will dramatically change the lives of everyone one of us.
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Automation improves chances of human survival
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
This intriguing French thriller received little attention in the UK, but is well worth a watch
Diagram to explain the terminology used when discussing life extension - reproduced from the Live Forever Manual
In the book, the vision of biological immortality has become reality, but has not yet fully arrived
A look at the latest UK life expectancy at 65 statistics - annual increase has been growing since 1960