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Someone asked “What is your vision of abundance?” I said:

Mastery over all aspects of nature:

• Biology: cure disease & aging
• Space: supersonic, flying cars, rockets
• Matter: nanotech, megastructures
• Energy: fusion, Dyson spheres
• Information: AI, BCI
• Environment: terraforming, climate control

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

This is an awesome list! Just curious, is aging something to be cured?

Or is it more like managed? Prolonged?

user experience researcher /openux || wisdom hunter /manansh || writing manansh.xyz

I’m not confident in the idea that aging is an ailment but… you offer an interesting prompt to contemplate

Your skin and hair degrade, you lose your strength and memory, you become more susceptible to cancer and infection, and then you die. Sounds like a disease to me?

If if only happened to 1% of people instead of 100%, wouldn't it seem like a disease?