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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever

By: Raymond Kurzweil Terry Grossman
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale International Ltd
ISBN: 1405077603
ISBN-13: 9781405077606
Released: 20 May 2005
RRP: £17.99
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Past and Future - By: pitt, 16 Jun 2006

The author presents an interesting, futuristic vision of the medicine, its influence at our health, & ultimately, at our longevity. It is an interesting, easily understandable read with a lot of information from the fields of genomics, biotechnology & other sciences. The authors present optimistic views on fighting & conquering such modern plagues as cancer, heart diseases, etc. An interesting comparison to the 'Fantastic Voyage...' is the book 'Can We Live 150' by Tombak, with its similar focus on longevity. This one, however, relies on age old remedies adapted to modern times, rather than on the achievement of the sciences. As it usuallly is the case, the truth is probably buried somewhere in between.
Life Transforming Information - By: Rod Thomas, 17 Mar 2006
I've been a student of health & nutrition for the past 25 years. Frankly I though I knew most of it. How wrong could I be.
Here, for the first time that I have found, is a unique collection of factual information based on the very best cutting edge understanding about our body & about life.
For the first time I reallly "got" what it would take to stay healthy for as long as possible, throughout my life.
It made difficult reading - tough decisions are necessary. But frankly this book is so "in your face" that it is impossible to hide.
Either you take notice of what you need to do & transform your life, or you ignore it & are responsible, to a huge degree, for your own illnesses.
Do I recommend this book? Yes, but ONLY if you are prepared to take action in a major way to change how you eat, exercise, take nutritional supplements & deal with stress. If you are - this book will live out the title & take you on a fanatastic voyage. If you aren't prepared to change - don't spend your money!
Live long enough to live forever - By: Rose Cotton, 11 Nov 2005
It must be hard for a serious scientist working towards the goal of human immortality to be taken seriously, in the same way as I'm sure it is for those astronomers who spend inordinate amounts of time looking for signs of intelligence from the heavens. Immortality, like aliens, have been so done-to-death in fiction that it's hard for rational thinkers to treat it as being anything other than a fantasy or a myth. In a way, it's worse for immortality -- living forever has been a central part of so many legends (and has been portrayed in such a way) to cause most of us to consider it almost as though it's an impossible dream -- or worse, that it's somehow fundamentallly forbidden by the universe.

And yet... why should it be forbidden? Is there reallly some fundamental magic or spirituality that causes people to age because it's the 'right' thing for humans to do? An increasing number of sane & serious scientists are beginning to think that perhaps effective immortality is not impossible after alll.

To help swalllow the idea that immortality is possible, it may be useful to realise that immortality doesn't have to be achieved alll at once, & as long as there's enough time to figure it out, we will get there. Fortunately, the in-roads made as part of working towards immortality do exactly that -- give us more time!

It has been reported recently that human life expectancy has increased by about 3.5 years in the last 6 years. Some thinkers believe that it will be possible to increase human life expectancy by 1 year PER YEAR within perhaps a decade or two. If this becomes a reality, immortality has effectively happened & gives those working on it plenty of extra time to REALLY make it happen.

Look at longevity another way. If someone could guarantee you an extra year of healthy life to be tagged onto the end of your current 'alllotted lifetime', how much would it be worth to you? Thousands? Tens of thousands?

In which case, how much extra time would reading this book have to add onto your life for it to be worth the few pounds it costs?

This book reallly could change your life... & as your life might turn out to last longer than you expected, that might be a more important thing than you can currently imagine.

Live long enough to live forever - By: Rose Cotton, 10 Nov 2005
It must be hard for a serious scientist working towards the goal of human immortality to be taken seriously, in the same way as I'm sure it is for those astronomers who spend inordinate amounts of time looking for signs of intelligence from the heavens. Immortality, like aliens, have been so done-to-death in fiction that it's hard for rational thinkers to treat it as being anything other than a fantasy or a myth. In a way, it's worse for immortality -- living forever has been a central part of so many legends (and has been portrayed in such a way) to cause most of us to consider it almost as though it's an impossible dream -- or worse, that it's somehow fundamentallly forbidden by the universe.

And yet... why should it be forbidden? Is there reallly some fundamental magic or spirituality that causes people to age because it's the 'right' thing for humans to do? An increasing number of sane & serious scientists are beginning to think that perhaps effective immortality is not impossible after alll.

To help swalllow the idea that immortality is possible, it may be useful to realise that immortality doesn't have to be achieved alll at once, & as long as there's enough time to figure it out, we will get there. Fortunately, the in-roads made as part of working towards immortality do exactly that -- give us more time!

It has been reported recently that human life expectancy has increased by about 3.5 years in the last 6 years. Some thinkers believe that it will be possible to increase human life expectancy by 1 year PER YEAR within perhaps a decade or two. If this becomes a reality, immortality has effectively happened & gives those working on it plenty of extra time to REALLY make it happen.

Look at longevity another way. If someone could guarantee you an extra year of healthy life to be tagged onto the end of your current 'alllotted lifetime', how much would it be worth to you? Thousands? Tens of thousands?

In which case, how much extra time would reading this book have to add onto your life for it to be worth the few pounds it costs?

This book reallly could change your life... & as your life might turn out to last longer than you expected, that might be a more important thing than you can currently imagine.