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The $1 Million Race For The Cure To End Aging

Posted: September 16, 2014 at 7:41 am

The hypothesis is so absurd it seems as though it popped right off the pages of a science-fiction novel. Some scientists in Palo Alto are offering a $1 million prize to anyone who can end aging. Based on the rapid rate of biomedical breakthroughs, we believe the question is not if we can crack the aging code, but when will it happen, says director of the Palo Alto Longevity Prize Keith Powers.

Its a fantastical idea: curing the one thing we will all surely die of if nothing else gets us before that. I sat down with Aubrey de Grey, the chief science officer of theSENS Research Foundationand co-author of Ending Aging, to discuss this very topic a few days back. According to him, ending aging comes with the promise to not just stop the hands of time, but to actually reverse the clock. We could, according to him, actually choose the age wed like to exist at for the rest of our (unnatural?) lives. But we are far off from possibly seeing this happen in our lifetime, says de Grey. With sufficient funding we have a 50/50 chance to getting this all working within the next 25 years, but it could also happen in the next 100, he says.

If you ask Ray Kurzweil, life extension expert, futurist and part-time adviser to Googles somewhat stealth Calico project, were actually tip-toeing upon the cusp of living forever. Well get to a point about 15 years from now where were adding more than a year every year to your life expectancy, he told the New York Times in early 2013. He also wrote in the book he co-authored with Terry Grossman, M.D., that Immortality is within our grasp. Thats a bit optimistic to de Grey (the two are good friends), but hes not surprised this prize is coming out of Silicon Valley. Things are changing here first. We have a high density of visionaries who like to think high.

And he believes much of what Kurzweil says is true with the right funding. Give me large amounts of money to get the research to happen faster, says de Grey. He then points out that Googles Calico funds are virtually unlimited. Kurzweil asked Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] how much he had to work with and they said to let him know when he runs out of money and theyll send more, de Grey tells me.

Whether its 15, 25 or even 100 years off, we need to spur a revolution in aging research, according to Joon Yun, one of the sponsors of the prize. The aim of the prize is to catalyze that revolution, says Yun. His (very well-connected) nanny actually came up with the initial idea. She just happens to be an acquaintance of Wendy Schmidt, wife of Googles Eric Schmidt. But it was the passing of Yuns 68-year-old father-in-law and some conversations with his friends that got him thinking about how to take on aging as a whole.

The Palo Alto Prize is also working with a number of angel investors, venture capital firms, corporate venture arms, institutions and private foundations within Silicon Valley to create health-related incentive prize competitions in the future. This first $1 million prize comes from Yuns own pockets.

The initial prize will be divided into two $500,000 awards. Half a million dollars will go to the first team to demonstrate that it can restore heart rate variability (HRV) to that of a young adult. The other half of the $1million will be awarded to the first team that can extend lifespan by 50 percent. So far 11 teams from all over the world have signed up for the challenge.

All 11 teams are listed below for those interested in following along:

Doris Taylor, Ph.D. Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX http://paloaltoprize.com/team/team-taylor-lab/ TEAM NAME: T.H.I. REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (approach: stem cells)

Dongsheng Cai, M.D., Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY http://paloaltoprize.com/team/cai-lab/ TEAM NAME: CAI LAB (approach: hypothalamic regulation)

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Cibolo councilman reinstated to seat

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A Cibolo councilman has been reinstated to his seat after losing it when he applied for a post on a local water board, a violation of the city's charter.

Councilman James Doty had to forfeit his seat in August when he filed for a post on the Green Valley Special Utility District board of directors in the November election. GVSUD provides water services for parts of Cibolo.

The councilman said when he applied for the water board seat on Aug. 18, the filing deadline, he did not realize the GVSUD post was an elected position.

According to the city charter, if an elected city official places his or her name on the ballot for another elected post their council seat automatically becomes vacant.

Doty said he thought the GVSUD post was an appointed, unelected position.

It was a mistake, he said. It was a human error.

He said he withdrew his name from the GVSUD post once city officials notified him that he could not retain his council seat under the city charter if he ran for the water board.

To rectify the situation, the Cibolo City Council voted to appoint Doty back to his seat at a Saturday special meeting following procedures set forth in the city charter.

According to the city charter, the council has up to 30 days to fill a seat once it becomes vacant.

The city posted the council vacancy on its website, with a copy of the application for those who wanted to be appointed to the position.

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President commends post-2015 agenda progress as General Assembly concludes 68th session

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15 September 2014 Closing the current session in the newly-renovated General Assembly Hall, President John Ashe today expressed gratitude to Member States for their cooperation in focusing on perhaps the biggest generational challenge of the United Nations: crafting an inclusive, participatory, people centred post-2015 development agenda.

These are indeed troubling times and they require resourceful, dedicated and focused responses. I am therefore grateful for your cooperationin helping me to set the stage for this collective endeavour, Mr. Ashe said in his closing address to the 193-member body.

The UN post-2015 development agenda, which will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, has the eradication of extreme poverty as its overarching objective, Mr. Ashe said.

Member States had wholeheartedly joined in a wide spectrum of high-level events and thematic debates he had convened to pave the way towards the new agenda, which yielded good results.

Some 300 resolutions and 80 decisions were adopted on a range of issues including nuclear disarmament, rule of law, financing for development, the peaceful use of outer space, the right to privacy, the safety of journalists and peacekeeping missions budgets.

Mr. Ashe looked forward to the upcoming 69th session of the Assembly as an opportunity to build on those accomplishments as well as to break new ground in addressing pivotal developmental issues, and emerging challenges.

As we usher in the 69th session, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) you have developed will form the main basis for whatever set of concise goals you agree to for the post-2015 development agenda, Mr. Ashe said.

That agenda has the potential for transformative change and to eradicate poverty and bring dignity to the lives of all human beings by building on the foundation and successes of the MDGs.

To that end, his General Assembly had achieved important milestones including the completion of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which gives SIDS a mandate to marshal support for their agenda within the context of the post-2015 agenda.

In addition, the Assembly completed a review on global counter terrorism strategy and the launch of the first ever UN Web Portal for victims of terrorism. On social and humanitarian issues, the Assembly produced the High Level Declaration on migration and development and adoption of the Outcome Document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.

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Julian Assange Says "Apolitical Futurism of Star Trek" Fits Google

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Julian Assange is currently answering questions in a live chat over at Gawker, promoting his new book, When Google Met Wikileaks. One of the most interesting exchanges for readers of Paleofuture actually comes from a question by Matthew Phelan who writes the Gawker subdomain Black Bag.

Phelan asks about the culture of Google and whether its vision of the future aligns with more retro notions of technology, information and politics seen in cultural artifacts like Star Trek.

Question from Matthew Phelan of the Gawker subdomain Black Bag:

There was a piece in Slate last year about Google, that I kept thinking about with respect to this book, about how Google's internal culture and goals are bound up in Star Trek. For example: Amit Singhal, the head of Google's search rankings team, told the South by Southwest Interactive Festival that "The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building."

It makes sense to me in that there's a real Camelot-era liberal pro-statist ideal underlying Star Trek's vision of the future, and I'm curious what your sense was as to whether or not Eric Schmidt really buys into that. AND/OR I am curious to know how your idealized vision of the future differs from that Google Star Trek model.

From Julian Assange:

I hadn't seen that piece. At a glance, it reminds me of the discovery that the NSA had had the bridge of the Enterprise recreated. In my experience it is more reliable and fairer to look at peoples interests and expenditure rather than try to diagnose their inner mental state, as the latter often lets people project their own biases. As I say in the book, I found Eric Schmidt to be, as you would expect, a very sharp operator. If you read "The New Digital Age", the apolitical futurism of Star Trek seems to fit what Schmidt writes quite well. I also quite liked this summary of Google's vision for the future: "Google's vision of the future is pure atom-age 1960s Jetsons fantasy, bubble-dwelling spiritless sexists above a ruined earth."

It's interesting to see Assange describe Star Trek futurism as apolitical, especially because from Phelan's question (and any critical reading of Star Trek's quasi-utopian, post-scarcity values) Star Trek is presented as far from apolitical. Even "atom-age 1960s Jetsons fantasy" doesn't seem to quite nail it.

If anything, this exchange shows that we're grasping at imperfect utopian analogies for the future dredged up from the past when what we really should be looking at are the dystopias.

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Futurist Jack Uldrich to Address 10 Things We Should Be Thinking About with AgBank

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Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) September 16, 2014

On September 16th Jack Uldrich, Global Futurist and Best Selling Author, will be addressing AgBank's District CFO Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Uldrich will be discussing the "10 Things We Should Be Thinking About."

When it comes to finance Uldrich says, "Banking executives need to become what I call 'Exponential Executives.' That is, leaders who understand that as impressive as past technological advances have beenthe ATM, online banking, and mobile banking, etc.,they are just the beginning.

Banking interactions will continue to evolve as customers physical and virtual worlds become intertwined, and social networks and mobile platforms will transform customers banking experiences and expectations. Still other advances will create an environment where a premium is placed on unconventional thinking and risk-taking."

A highly acclaimed futurist and trend expert, Uldrich has spoken all over the world to a variety of industries and organizations. Among the topics and trends Uldrich will discuss with AgBank audience members are precision agriculture, prescriptive planting, 3D manufacturing, wearable technology, robotics, the "Internet of Things," genomics, nanotechnology, peer-to-peer lending, collaborative consumption and "Big Data."

Uldrich has delivered presentations to such notable clients as Verizon Wireless, the AMA, PepsiCo, Bausch and Lomb, United Healthcare, as well as hundreds of Agricultural Groups all over the world including Novozymes, Land O'Lakes, Ag Gateway, FS Agronomy, Canada's Agricultural Adaptation Council, the California Ag Summit, and the 2014 PMA, among others. His writings include "The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business" and "Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clarks Daring Westward Expedition."

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about the event or interviewing Jack can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, technology forecaster, best-selling author, and editor of the monthly newsletter, The Exponential Executive.

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Black unemployment double that of whites; NATO plans for new force in Europe – UCNN 461 – Video

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World War 3 | NATO Counters Russian Nukes | WW3 Imminent – Video

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Putin Plans to Destroy Ukraine: Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk says NATO is best deterrent against Kremlin – Video

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