In article <aXLMxARABh107h at chambers.ak.planet.co.nz>
steve at chambers.ak.planet.co.nz (Steve Chambers) wrote:
> And there's a third: nobody young wants more "old age" - and that's
> what life extension means to most.
Read "Margin of Error" by Nancy Kress. It'll give you a feel for the possibilies
and a particularly nasty danger of nanotech and genetics as applied to
gerontology. The gist is, though, with that kind of technology you don't
just get extended life--ageing is suspended!
Brian A. Reiter
bareiter at iastate.edu
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein