STREET DOGS: Perils of a longer life
From a social perspective, the benefits of living longer might not be all we expect
From Manu Saadia at Fusion.net: Should we manage to hack death and stop the ageing process, the forever young will rule the world with their immense wealth: just picture what 300 years of compound growth would do to the bank accounts of billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The big question is how many tri-centenarians there will be. Will life extension be reserved to the 1% and the oligarchs, or will its benefits be shared by all of humanity? This in a nutshell is the promise, but also the real peril of life-extension technology. What happens to our society when we finally manage to beat death? Beating death may sound crazy, but Google is the latest tech behemoth to invest in life extension. Calico’s mission, as its website reads, is "to harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan. "We will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthie...
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