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James Hughes - Google vs Death: an Anti Aging Initiative - Politics, Private vs Publicly Funded R&D

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2013 · Science & Technology

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IEET: http://ieet.org - Also see other recent interviews on Google's Anti-Aging initiative: 
People I have interviewed on this theme:
 - Ben Goertzel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtkjWijmR4M
 - Aubrey de Grey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Cr3XeVk7k
 - Christine Peterson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYpSYGarWkY
 - Karl Hale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SojxtW-r-dM
 - James Hughes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zp5bXfVcNs
 - Anders Sandberg: http://youtu.be/v9Z8qNCOc0Q
 - George Dvorsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gddz-o5T1Kc
 - David Orban: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kip8563BUw8
 - David Pearce: pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQm9JsCP7VU - pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx3yNk4XUNY

Google's Calico Announcement: https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/Lh8SKC6sED1

In today's TIME Tech Exclusive Google vs. Death, Larry Page announced Calico, a new Google firm focusing on the challenges of healthcare, aging and associated diseases.

"Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives," said Larry.

Arthur D. Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech, Chairman of Apple, and director of Hoffmann-La Roche, will be CEO and a founding investor.

"We focus on early-stage, proof-of-concept research as a non-profit here at SENS Research Foundation. That sort of work is appealing to only the most visionary of investors in the for-profit world. But the ultimate goal of Peter Thiel and our other early supporters has always been to kickstart real anti-aging industry, so it's very important news." said Mike Kope, CEO of SENS Research Foundation.

"I applaud the vision of Google in choosing to devote their energies toward solving the problems of age-related disease, and warmly welcome Art Levinson to this new initiative."

After speaking at a Google Tech Talk in Mountain View last month, SENS Research Foundation co-founder and CSO Aubrey de Grey was asked to opine on the news in a response at TIME, also published today.

"The 'beginning of the beginning' of the war on aging began in the 1990s. Since then, the battle for hearts and minds as to that quest's feasibility has been proceeding at full tilt. With Google's decision to direct its resources toward aging, that battle may have been transcended. The curmudgeons no longer matter," said Aubrey. "It's no exaggeration to state that the end of the beginning may have arrived. I won't go so far as to say that my crusading job is done, but for sure it just got a whole lot easier."

Why Fight Aging? : http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/2008/why-fight-aging/

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