A continuing flow of promising research on aging points to a growing likelihood that healthy life spans will soon get a significant boost. It is also possible that initial progress in extending “health spans” by a few years will unfold further into “longevity escape velocity” – where remaining life span gets increased by more than 1 …
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May 26 2019
Changing Your Perspective on Aging
Changing Your Perspective on Aging A lifetime of holding one perspective will not be easy to change Even though life spans have been increasing – even doubling in the last couple of centuries, we still age, get old and die. That has been the program since humankind has been around. We look around and see …
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May 15 2019
Will Human Lifespans Continue to Expand? – Reasons for Optimism
Are you expecting to live in a robust and healthy state well beyond age 100? We are currently used to seeing age 80-ish as the limit with those living beyond that in mostly poor, frail shape. Also, if you look at recent stats from the US that show life expectancy has dropped for 3 years …
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Feb 09 2019
Technology Friend or Foe?
it is good to seek out,and learn from thought leaders who are in touch with the tremendous impacts that technological advances may have on our lives and our world
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Jul 07 2018
Longevity Mindset
Your mindset is an important aspect of how you will experience your life. Not only that, it may also have a big influence over your longevity! One of my favorite podcasts is called Exponential Wisdom – where Peter Diamandis (of Singularity University and X-Prize) and Dan Sullivan (of Strategic Coach) riff on different topics. As …
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Feb 15 2015
There’s Gold In Them-Thar Nanotubes! – Medical Advances Now Tied to Technological Acceleration
An extraordinary wave of new interventions, treatments, medical tools and new and more precise medical knowledge is upon us. They will propel the progression of better and faster diagnosis, treatments cures and prevention,
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Nov 25 2014
Should We Plan on Living Beyond Age 100? “Longevity Risk” and Retirement Revisited
A key theme I write about in RetirementSingularity.com is the idea that we are, I believe, not too far away from being able to extend human healthy life spans well beyond age 120. In my mind, an important unknown is when this will become an accessible and practical reality. My best guess is that the science that will enable this will start showing up in about 15 – 20 years. Since this is not that far away, and likely within your life expectancy, don’t you think it should be something you pay attention to?
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Nov 02 2014
The Coming Age of Unprecedented Healthy Life Extension and Why You Should Be Cheering It On!
Maybe not! Consider that retirement planning is about the future – your future. And given the acceleration of change in our world, consider that your future will be dramatically different than your past.
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Jun 27 2014
Financing A Long-Lived Future – Zoomer Article
cast your mind into the future when advances in science, nutrition and health care begin to take hold and extend our lifespans. It will be a time when age 80 won’t mean falling prey to the typical decline of mind and body that we normally associate with old age. Instead, he suggests we’ll be healthy, energetic and willing and able to keep learning – and keep working.
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May 22 2014
The End of Retirement as We Know It – Executive Summary
Essentially in every crucial area that retirement planning makes assumptions, dramatic changes are coming. I believe that how we think about and plan our retirement is about to be completely undone.
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Singularity Hub
- Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives? November 19, 2024Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The air is thick with tension, My mind is a tangled mess, The weight of my emotions Is heavy on my chest. This apparently Plath-like verse was produced by GPT-3.5 in response to the prompt “write a short poem in the style of Sylvia Plath.” The stanza […]Andrew Dean
- A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch November 18, 2024All life on Earth is written with four DNA “letters.” An AI just used those letters to dream up a completely new genome from scratch. Called Evo, the AI was inspired by the large language models, or LLMs, underlying popular chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. These models have taken the world by […]Shelly Fan
- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 16) November 16, 2024COMPUTING IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done on Quantum Hardware John Timmer | Ars Technica “There’s a general consensus that we won’t be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It’s still an […]Singularity Hub Staff
- MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI November 15, 2024A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train a robot dog using 100 percent synthetic data. Traditionally, robots have been hand-coded to perform particular tasks, but this approach results in brittle systems that struggle to cope with the uncertainty […]Edd Gent
- Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You November 14, 2024When I was a young kid, our neighborhood didn’t have any grocery stores. The only place to buy fruits and vegetables was at our local farmer’s market. My mom would pick out the freshest tomatoes and sauté them with eggs into a simple dish that became my comfort food. The tomatoes were hideous to look […]Shelly Fan
- Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key November 12, 2024In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages differently—with some assuming they convey […]Olaf Lipinski
- This Ambitious Project Wants to Sequence the DNA of All Complex Life on Earth November 11, 2024“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first announced. It seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi. Documenting these genomes is the first step to building an atlas […]Shelly Fan
Lifespan.io News on Healthy Life Extension
- Dietary Diversity Is Associated With Delayed Aging November 20, 2024An analysis of data from over twenty thousand people has indicated that greater dietary diversity is associated with slower biological aging [1]. Your health is what […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- Intranasal Spray Alleviates Early Alzheimer’s in Mice November 19, 2024A novel therapy based on induced neuronal stem cells shows promise in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease – and it can be administered intranasally [1]. Who needs cells? […]Arkadi Mazin
- Engineering T Cells to Fight Brain Cancer November 18, 2024Researchers publishing in Nature have reported a new advance in developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to fight solid tumors in the brain. A difficult endeavor […]Josh Conway
- Study of Direct Reprogramming Challenges Consensus November 15, 2024Scientists have shown that in a direct cellular reprogramming scenario, neurons are produced almost exclusively by a rare subtype of multipotent cells. Their […]Arkadi Mazin
- Preventing Alzheimer’s Proteins From Accumulating November 14, 2024Boosting a key autophagy-related protein discourages a core component of Alzheimer’s from taking hold, according to a study published in Aging Cell. Taking out the trash Autophagy is the maintenance process of the cell, […]Josh Conway
- A Senolytic Accelerates Reproductive Aging in Aged Mice November 13, 2024In a new study, researchers tested the impact of the senolytic drug ABT-263 on the reproductive systems of old female mice. ABT-263 treatment did not rescue age-related changes in hormonal levels, further depleted ovarian reserves, […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- Rozalyn Anderson Explains Caloric Restriction November 12, 2024At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Rozalyn Anderson is studying one of the oldest-known and yet most powerful anti-aging interventions: caloric restriction (CR). Back in 1935, CR helped launch the entire longevity field when a pioneering study by Clive […]Arkadi Mazin