The End of Aging? New Hunt for Cure to Growing Old - Sirtris - Glenn Reynolds - Popular Mechanics Quote:
Old age has always been like the weather: Everybody talks about aging, but nobody does anything about it. Oh, they’ve tried. For millennia, charlatans have been offering remedies for aging that didn’t work any better than baldness cures and virility restorers.
Now, however, with baldness cures and virility restorers that do work found as close as the nearest drugstore, researchers have started looking into ways to slow, stop or perhaps even reverse the changes that accompany aging. If these scientists succeed, their breakthroughs may lead to major changes in human society.
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Interesting to imagine how human society would adjust if people starting living 20, 50, 100 years longer, or forever (barring non-age related causes of death, such as a gun shot or getting hit by a bus)