Question Technology: Aubrey de Grey at Google

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Aubrey de Grey at Google

Video of a talk Aubrey de Grey gave at Google this week: Prospects for extending healthy life -- a lot.

It's about an hour long. I've only watched a bit of the intro and conclusions. He concludes with a bizarre (and probably tasteless) analogy. He compares his work to what the passengers on Flight 93 did by overtaking the hijackers in order to save people on the ground. His final two slides are a picture of Todd Beamer and a slide that says "Let's Roll."

Previous posts about Aubrey de Grey.

Jun 2, 2007 5:41:22 PM | Biotechnology, Geeks, Health, Medicine, Politics, Science, Society, Technology

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