Hacking Immortality: New Realities in the Quest to Live Forever

by Sputnik Futures

Overview

Cheat death—or at least delay it—with this accessible look into the quest for immortality, and what it means for human civilization.

Are humans close to living forever? With advances in medicine and new therapies that prolong life expectancy, we are on track to make aging even more manageable.

This new entry in the exciting Alice in Futureland series explores both the science and cultural impulse behind extending lifespans, and the numerous ways the quest for eternity forces us to reevaluate what it means to be human. Some experts believe that we haven’t fully realized our true human potential, and we are about to embark on an extraordinary evolutionary shift.

Hacking Immortality answers all your burning questions, including:
-Can humans cheat death?
-What is your grim age?
-Will 100 be the new 40?
-Will we become software?

As reality suddenly catches up to science fiction, Hacking Immortality gives the truth on the state of humanity—and all its possible futures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982139834
Publisher:	S&S/Simon Element
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Series:	Alice in Futureland
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,019,226
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sputnik Futures is a strategic futures consultancy that has provided strategic foresight consultation to cross-category multinational corporations for over twenty-six years. Sputnik has a public archive of original video interviews with global thought leaders, from Nobel Prize laureates to acclaimed innovators. They are the founders of Alice in Futureland®, a new media platform of books, podcasts, and events discovering the human potential at the intersection of art, science, technology, and culture.

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Chapter 01: There’s a New Disease Called “Aging”; Do You Have It?

Table of Contents

00 Introduction ix

Is It Simply a Design Flaw That We Age And Die?

1 There's a New Disease Called "Aging"; Do You Have It? 1

Flipping the Evolutionary Script from Life Span to Health Span

2 What's Your Grimage? 41

Predicting Your Death Through Your Biological Clocks

03 Is Nature Immortal? 71

Or, What Can We Learn from Yeast, Flatworms, and Jellyfish?

04 Will One Hundred be the New Forty? 99

Anticipating Your Longevity Risk

05 Will We Become Software? 133

Upload, Download, Augment, and Upgrade Yourself

06 What Will It Mean to be "Human"? 153

Are We Evolving as a Species?

07 Alice in Futureland 187

A Speculative Life in 2050

08 Down the Rabbit Hole 195

Articles, Further Reading, People, Organizations

Acknowledgments 217

Endnotes 218

Illustration Credits 231

Index 237