Briefly: A lot. As you might have noticed, for me as biotechnologist/life extensionist, the most important reference group is the group of IT people, because of the engineering approach, software-hardware tools, intuition concerning technology and funds. After Reason and Chris, our next answerer is Jim Craig, who published his answers here as a comment first by accident. This democracy of comments and reader generated contribution is so welcome. Jim is a lead architect and director of a software team, and the type of IT guy, whose interests can easily be as valuable concerning life extension as biotechnologists, and not exclusively in the long run.
1. What is the story of your life extension commitment?
I have adopted life extension as a hobby. I now study microbiology, proteomics and molecular design about 20 hours per week and plan to guide the next 20-40 years of my career through bioinformatics and eventually into de novo drug design with an emphasis on aging solutions.
2. Is it a commitment for moderate or maximum life extension?
maximum.
3. What is your favourite argument supporting human life extension?
1. Future generations will certainly have it. Why not ours?
2. Eliminating the suffering that accompanies aging will make humanity more humane.
4. What is the most probable technological draft of human life extension, which technology or discipline has the biggest chance to reach it earlies?
I think all of the present “big potentials” like stem cells, gene therapy, etc will contribute to modest extensions to average and maximum life expectancy but I believe that the most significant gains will fall out of accurate and large scale computer models that can simulate the emergent properties of protein-protein and protein-enzyme interactions. These will be the tools of the multi-disciplined systems biologists of the future. I see advancements in life extension tightly bound in a triple helix with proteomic knowledge and computing power.
5. When?
In 20-40 years we will see the most dramatic returns IMO.
6. What can blogs do for LE?
resonance.
Deep, healthy lifespan extension 