Life Extension By Tyler Yuen Are humans becoming

Life Extension By Tyler Yuen

Are humans becoming too ambitious in their desire to advance technology?

What is Life Extension? ● The idea of being able to increase an individual lifespan through technological means while also allowing them to function as younger individuals. ● Its purpose is to prevent people from dying due to age related illnesses ● The ability to change a human lifespan can bring can be valuable in the short run and detrimental in the long run.

Benefits ● Life extension offers personal benefits ○ Time ○ Ability to feel young and energetic despite older age (Faloon) Lifespan wastelessfuture. com/news/has-human-lifespan-hit-its-natural-limit/.

Developments Mice Comparison www. nature. com/news/ageing-research-blood-to-blood-1. 16762#auth-1 ● Most popular methods in progress come from science fiction ○ Genetic Editing - Aging Prevention – In Time ○ Digital Uploading Resurrection through Technology (Reedy) - “Altered Carbon” ○ Young Blood Injection - Age Reversal (Scudellari) - Silicon Valley

Flaws ● The ability to avoid death possesses shortcomings (Bagalà) ○ Against human nature ○ Social inequality ○ Dehumanization ○ Overpopulation ○ Resources Overpopulation and Resources Consumption www. ourbreathingplanet. com/world-overpopulation/ Social Inequality www. merriam-webster. com/words-at-play/unequal-vsinequality-negative-prefix-usage

The Last Question (1956) The Last Question Book Cover www. sevencut. com/march-2017 -distant-futuremonth/2017/3/8/distant-future-month-3 -the-lastquestion-by-isaac-asimov ● Immortal Life ○ Overpopulation of galaxy ○ Mass consumption of sunpower resource ○ Depriving humans of individuality ○ “The Galactic AC has solved many problems for us, but in solving the problems of preventing old age and death, it has undone all its other solutions. ” (Asimov 5)

Altered Carbon(2002) ● Digital Uploading ○ Inequality between social classes as new bodies are expensive to purchase ○ Conflicts with religious beliefs of people who believe the soul goes to Heaven when they die ○ Increase in violence since people can simply buy a new body (Paskin) Altered Carbon Book Cover www. richardkmorgan. com/books/altered-carbon/

Are humans becoming too ambitious in their desire to advance technology?

Works Cited ● Asimov, I. (1956, November). The Last Question[Https: //openlab. citytech. cuny. edu/belli-f 2018 eng 2420/files/2018/10/The-Last-Question-Issac-Asimov. pdf]. Columbia Publications. ● Bagalà, Nicola. “Popular Reactions to Life Extension |. ” LEAF, 24 Nov. 2018, www. leafscience. org/popular-reactionsto-life-extension/. ● Faloon, William. “Human Age-Reversal Research. ” Life. Extension. com, www. lifeextension. com/magazine/2015/8/human-age-reversal-research/page-01. ● Paskin, Willa. “In Netflix's Altered Carbon, the 1 Percent Live Forever. ” Slate Magazine, Slate, 1 Feb. 2018, slate. com/culture/2018/02/netflixs-altered-carbon-reviewed. html. ● Reedy, Christianna. “An End to Aging: Can Science Allow Humans to To Become Immortal? ” Futurism, 3 Mar. 2017, futurism. com/1 -evergreen-an-end-to-aging-heres-how-were-fighting-death. ● Scudellari, Megan. “Ageing Research: Blood to Blood. ” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, www. nature. com/news/ageing-research-blood-to-blood-1. 16762#auth-1.

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