life extension technology

How to usher humanity into an era of transhumanist bliss: first, end scarcity. Second, eradicate death. Third, eliminate the bungled mechanisms that introduce imperfections into the human body. The vehicle for accomplishing all three? Molecular nanotechnology—in essence, the reduction of all material things to the status of software.

Researchers from the Nano Machine Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a novel type of nanomachine that can capture and store anticancer drugs inside tiny pores and release them into cancer cells in response to light. Known as a "nanoimpeller," the device is the first light-powered nanomachine that operates inside a living cell, a development that has strong implications for cancer treatment.

The science world is divided on a discovery that could soon have humans living for multiple lifespans -- if we want to.

It looks unlikely that medical science will abolish the process of ageing. But it no longer looks impossible

Millions of people around the world have modified their body in some form or fashion such as tattoos and earrings but that is rather crude compared to how people will alter themselves in the very near future. These technologies will be pushed upon the youth in slick advertising campaigns which serves the transhumanist agenda. Biotechnology and Nanotechnology will be used to transcend human capabilities. This technology in the minds of those in transhuman movement will be used to usher in a ‘brave new world’ that surpasses anything envisioned by Aldous Huxley or George Orwell.

In advance of the World Transhumanist Society's annual confab, Transvision 2007, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) held a pre-conference meeting in a non-descript ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel. The room was packed with 50 or so people interested in the issue of securing the "longevity dividend." Not everyone in the audience would call themselves "transhumanists" but all were interested in figuring out how to sell longer lives to the public.