Joel Garreau spends some time with Aubrey de Grey, prophet of the 1000 year lifespan, for the Washington Post: "Another thing that's going to have to change completely is retirement. For the moment, when you retire, you retire forever. We're sorry for old people because they're going downhill. There will... (read the rest)
posted November 6, 2007
Two pieces -- from very different perspectives -- about efforts to change the way we think about the elderly. In the first, Portfolio's "Odd Numbers" blogger Zubin Jeleveh looks at a recent working paper that attempts to define "elderly" not by number of years lived, but rather by mortality risk... (read the rest)
posted October 17, 2007
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