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I often get asked what the technology I most want to see developed in my own lifetime is,

and the answer is always life extension technology.

Live forever or die trying.

That's my motto.

So it's Sci-Fi Sunday here on SIA, and today we'll be examining a popular

trope in science fiction, folks living a lot longer, and talk about what that will do to a

civilization.

Of course, Life Extension is not a new topic on the show and not one we regard it as

science fiction in and of itself.

It's a technology that isn't on the distant horizon of the one we regard it as science fiction in and of itself. It's a technology

that isn't on the distant horizon of the far future, or even the near horizon, but one

actively making real progress. We've looked at it before in episodes on Life Extension and the

Science of Aging, a collaboration episode we did with the SENS Institute some years back. Those

episodes discuss the science and technology

of how our lifespans might be increased, whether it is from cybernetics and genetic engineering

to tiny robots fixing damage inside us to outright mind uploading to computers or Android bodies.

Today we are more interested in the effects of such technology though, so I thought

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