Hacking Immortality, Sputnik Futures
Hacking Immortality, Sputnik Futures
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Hacking Immortality
New Realities in the Quest to Live Forever

Author: Sputnik Futures

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Sputnik Futures

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bon Tom

It's a collage of different approaches of various authors/schools of thought. They vary in quality, realism, and making sense factor, so your mileage (and age) you achieve by reading it will vary as well.......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Interesting concept and I learned a few new things about living longer. I am not sure about some of the studies cited. For example there was a HIIT study saying that HIIT can increase longevity. The study sample was 36 men and 36 women so not a very robust group. I am going to do some further resear......more

Goodreads review by Cav

"Can you imagine living in a world where aging is optional? The World Health Organization, in their international disease codebook, declared aging a treatable condition. So now doctors and countries can report back to the World Health Organization how many people in their country are suffering from t......more

Goodreads review by Kristen

This is a book I would have never encountered had I not received a copy via a Goodreads giveaway. It runs through a whole bunch of different ways scientist around the world are trying to slow down the aging process, and in some cases, stop it all together. Now, I’m a middle aged woman, clearly I wou......more

Goodreads review by Tammy

This book reads like a magazine with several feature articles announcing major breakthroughs in the treatment of aging as a curable disease. I found it to be full of sensationalist pseudoscience without much that is going to happen in our lifetime. Yes, the fields of molecular genetics and cell scie......more