{"id":73737,"date":"2017-11-12T02:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T10:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/on-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail-for-as-long-as-we-live"},"modified":"2017-11-12T02:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T10:02:27","slug":"on-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail-for-as-long-as-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/on-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail-for-as-long-as-we-live","title":{"rendered":"On the quest for the holy grail for as long as we live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail-for-as-long-as-we-live.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing is rapidly going mainstream, and de Grey, if still a fringe thinker, seems increasingly less so. At the very least, medical science has progressed to the point where \u201cnegligible senescence\u201d \u2014 eternal youth, more or less \u2014 is something it might be a good idea to start talking about before it is suddenly upon us without our having thought through the implications. As with most of the other miracle technologies that have turned our lives inside out over the past 100 years \u2014 rampant automation, nuclear power, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and so on \u2014 this one, as Shukan Gendai points out, has its dark side.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Is death inevitable? True, everyone born before Aug. 4, 1900, has proved mortal (the world\u2019s oldest-known living person, a Japanese woman named Nabi Tajima, was born on that date). But the past is only an imperfect guide to the future, as the effervescent present is ceaselessly teaching us.<\/p>\n<p>Must we die? We ourselves probably must. But our children, our grandchildren \u2014 or if not them, theirs \u2014 may, conceivably, be the beneficiaries of the greatest revolution ever: the conquest of death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2017\/11\/11\/national\/media-national\/quest-holy-grail-long-live\/#.WggXI4-Cxdg\">https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2017\/11\/11\/national\/media-...ggXI4-Cxdg<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sort of thing is rapidly going mainstream, and de Grey, if still a fringe thinker, seems increasingly less so. At the very least, medical science has progressed to the point where \u201cnegligible senescence\u201d \u2014 eternal youth, more or less \u2014 is something it might be a good idea to start talking about before it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,873,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}