What would it feel like to live forever? Not constantly growing older, instead living forever as a young adult of twenty or thirty. While it seems like nothing but a dream, many are convinced that immortality is just around the corner of medical science and technology. Scott Wainner is one of these living forever advocates.
As a website developer who rode the wave of the dot com craze, lasted through the bubble burst and came back yet again, Scott is a premium source for new emerging technology. He originally brought this revolutionary theory of aging to my attention when he posted about the prevalence of longevity research at the San Diego Emerging Tech Conference. The skilled biologists and geneticists who are conducting this research believe that aging is something that happens at a cellular level and can therefore be prevented.
The normal perception of aging is that it is inevitable, something that each of us must face in time. This perception is not wrong per say,...
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