There's a new article at the Washington Post that talks about Aubrey de Grey's effort to end aging.  He has made the famous statement that the first person to live to 1000 years of age is alive today.

What if the only certainty is taxes?

How many people are in favor of malaria?  anyone?

Of course nobody thinks malaria is a good thing.  Well one of Aubrey's points is that human aging shares the primary negative characteristic with malaria which is that it KILLS people.  Only aging kills VASTLY MORE people.

Smart guy.  Compelling arguments.  Reasoned thinking.

Essentially, his argument is this.

The rate of improvement in therapies will stay ahead of the rate of aging.  You will get incrementally better treatment year over year, decade over decade and simply stay ahead of the curve.

Even without a radical revolutionary technology, the evolution of improved technologies will keep you ahead of the curve.

This?  The French record setting TGV

or this...When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts.

Can we understand how the brain works?

What is our intuitive underlying assumption about brain that is incorrect? 

Take a watch and find out.

Basically the cliff notes on his singularity books and accelerating change.