{"id":12791,"date":"2014-12-25T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:13:18","slug":"who-is-dr-aubrey-de-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/who-is-dr-aubrey-de-grey","title":{"rendered":"Who is Dr. Aubrey De Grey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Who is Dr. Aubrey de Grey?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QvhyZN75l20?list=PLRmS1rIxNmL2f5I1ViXqfTZXOOp2qFWYB\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This archive file was compiled from an interview conducted at the SENS Research Foundation in Mountain View, California, February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>About Dr. Aubrey de Grey: The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, decided in the 200s BC not to die, and assembled China\u2019s best thinkers and searchers to solve the problem of death. Things did not work out for him. As of the early 21st century, historical efforts at reliable health in old age displayed a reliable pattern of failure. While the eventual crystallization of the scientific method and resulting technology had greatly improved many people\u2019s life expectancy, the longest possible lifespan of an individual had proved to be a much more stubborn thing. Dr. Aubrey de Grey shot to controversial prominence in the 2000s, proposing that for the first time in history, developments in a wide variety of fields made it plausible to advocate for health technology which would significantly tackle age-related disease \u2014 possibly allowing the old to live with a higher quality of life and the same low \u2018risk of death\u2019 as the young.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia:<br \/> en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aubrey_de_Grey<\/p>\n<p>SENS Research Foundation:<br \/> sens.org\/research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This archive file was compiled from an interview conducted at the SENS Research Foundation in Mountain View, California, February 2013. About Dr. Aubrey de Grey: The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, decided in the 200s BC not to die, and assembled China\u2019s best thinkers and searchers to solve the problem of death. Things [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,224],"tags":[1750,1751,222],"class_list":["post-12791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science","tag-dr-aubrey-de-grey","tag-life-expectancy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}