{"id":23773,"date":"2016-03-20T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/futurenews-a-fun-list-to-read"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:38:44","slug":"futurenews-a-fun-list-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/futurenews-a-fun-list-to-read","title":{"rendered":"Futurenews: A fun list to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/futurenews-a-fun-list-to-read.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quest for immortality isn\u2019t something new. Longevity and eternal youth have frequently been sought after down through the ages, and efforts to keep from dying and fight off age have a long and interesting history. Legends about such things as \u2018the Elixir of Life\u2019, universal panaceas, and \u2018the Fountain of Youth\u2019 can be found in many different cultures from around the world, and the pursuit for immortality actually seems to be as old as mankind itself. Although divided by many generations of great men, the feelings of sheer helplessness and hopelessness that Ray Kurzweil must have felt when he experienced the loss of his father, strongly resembles those of Gilgamesh, the ancient Sumerian king, when he mourned over his friend Enkidu almost 5000 years earlier. As a matter of fact, mortality has probably haunted our conciuousness since the first human in horror witnessed death; and thus realized his or her own eventual demise<\/p>\n<p>Humanity has been in a bitter war with \u2018the Grim Reaper\u2019 ever since.<\/p>\n<p><center>\u201cSix days and seven nights I mourned over him, and I would not allow him to be buried until a maggot fell out of his nose. I was terrified [by his appearance]. I began to fear death, and so roam the wilderness.\u201d \u2013Gilgamesh<\/center><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/royalfred666.wix.com\/futurenews#!From-Gilgamesh-to-Kurzweil-the-Quest-for-Immortality\/qzpqu\/56eebbca0cf276e9de247d27\">http:\/\/royalfred666.wix.com\/futurenews#!From-Gilgamesh-to-Ku...e9de247d27<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quest for immortality isn\u2019t something new. Longevity and eternal youth have frequently been sought after down through the ages, and efforts to keep from dying and fight off age have a long and interesting history. Legends about such things as \u2018the Elixir of Life\u2019, universal panaceas, and \u2018the Fountain of Youth\u2019 can be found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62332,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773\/revisions\/62332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}