{"id":2619,"date":"2022-08-20T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2022-08-20T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:19:15","slug":"review-the-price-of-immortality-the-race-to-live-forever-by-peter-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-price-of-immortality-the-race-to-live-forever-by-peter-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever, by Peter Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most books I&#8217;ve seen about &#8220;life extension&#8221; and immortality are written by advocates of various ways of living much longer, or even forever.  These include Ray Kurzweil, the noted tech guru, and Dave Asprey, the inventor of &#8220;bulletproof coffee&#8221;, among many others.  But this book is different.  Ward is a skeptic &#8212; quite hostile to Asprey but more open to some of the others, including Aubrey de Grey, whose scientific credentials he doesn&#8217;t challenge.  The book begins with cryonics &#8212; the freezing of dead bodies in the hope of eventual resuscitation in the future &#8212; and continues through various other ideas, such as &#8216;uploading&#8217; one&#8217;s brain.  Research in slowing (or even reversing) ageing in some living creatures is quite intriguing.  Kurzweil and others have put forward the idea of &#8216;escape velocity&#8217; for ageing, arguing that anyone who can survive another 20 or 30 years might find medical breakthroughs then give them a few more years, and this process repeats until they live indefinitely.  Though not yet tested or proven, it&#8217;s an intriguing idea.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most books I&#8217;ve seen about &#8220;life extension&#8221; and immortality are written by advocates of various ways of living much longer, or even forever. These include Ray Kurzweil, the noted tech guru, and Dave Asprey, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}