New At Reason: Ron Bailey Among the Immortalists

November 17, 2009

This weekend, the Longevity Summit convened in Manhattan Beach, California. A group of researchers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries met for three days with the goal of developing a scientific and business strategy to make extreme human life extension a real possibility within a couple of decades. As inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil told the conferees: “Something I am personally interested in is not just designer babies, but designer baby boomers.” Reason Science Correspondent (and baby boomer) Ronald Bailey reports from the summit. 

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