Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever.FANTASTIC VOYAGE: Live Long Enough to Live Forever RAY KURZWEIL AND TERRY GROSSMAN
Within the next 20 years, we will have the technology to stop and perhaps even reverse aging, assert Kurzweil and Grossman. The authors outline three bridges Coordinates: Three Bridges is a neighbourhood within the town of Crawley, in the county of West Sussex in England. History to that future. The first is a longevity plan to stave off stave n. 1. A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure. 2. A rung of a ladder or chair. 3. A staff or cudgel. 4. Music See staff1. diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and stroke and start to reverse the aging process until scientific advances mature enough to cure and avert such illnesses. This plan advocates healthy eating, exercising, avoiding stress, and taking nutritional supplements Nutritional Supplements Definition Nutritional supplements include vitamins, minerals, herbs, meal supplements, sports nutrition products, natural food supplements, and other related products used to boost the nutritional content of the diet. . Bridge two is the biotechnology revolution, which Kurzweil and Grossman predict will provide cures for a host of diseases and allow people to turn off the aging process by altering their genetic programs. Bridge three is nanotechnology, which will someday send nanoscale At nanometer size. Any device only a few nanometers in size is nanoscale. See nanotechnology and nanometer. repair robots into people's bodies, the authors say. Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist, and Grossman, a physician who studies longevity, present a wide-ranging overview of each of these bridges to life extension and provide a plan for reaching them. Rodale Pr Inc., 2004, 452 p., b&w illus., hardcover, $24.95. |
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