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人类不甘臣服于衰老这种上苍既有的设定。英国老年医学理论家奥布里·德格雷认为,人们可以借助基因工程学手段改造细胞,以避免衰老过程,进而让寿命达到上千岁;谷歌联合创始人塞奇·布林提出了有朝一日能够“治愈死亡”的愿景;俄罗斯亿万富翁德米特里·伊茨科夫更邪乎,试图通过将大脑及脑中的意识植入机器化身的方式实现永生。他们所主张的这些“黑科技”(指现实中某些超乎寻常的事物)真的可能实现吗?人类长寿的秘诀能得到破解吗?
Mankind is unwilling to surrender to this established set of God. Aubrey De Gray, a British gerontologist, believes that one can use genetic engineering to transform cells to avoid the aging process, which in turn will bring lifespan to a thousand years of age. Google co-founder Sage Brin proposed one day that “ Cure death ”; the Russian billionaire Dmitry Iztokov is even more sinister, trying to eternal life by implanting the brain and mind into the machine. Is it really possible that these “black technologies” (which are some of the extraordinary things in reality) that they advocate can they be solved? Can the secrets of human longevity be cracked?