The Immortalist
A Science, Singularity, Philosophy book. Harrington's theme could be summed up as "if we can put a man...
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- Pages: 312 pages
- ISBN: 9780349116426 / 349116423
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A pretty profound book. I'd not considered death so wrapped up in everything until this book. The first part really made it clear to me. The latter parts of the book could be skipped for those who've read a lot of sci-fi: it's essentially a dry summary of some great Arther C Clarke plots, emphasising they could well happen. This book was brought to my attention by Jason Silva (of YouTube's ShotsofAwe), to whom I owe my gratitude. It was a great read! This book was extremely ambitious! But it's also suspiciously hard to get a hold of...unless you have deep pockets. After rejecting amazon's listed price of $900, I found that eBay offered a lightly worn first... Harrington's theme could be summed up as "if we can put a man on the moon, then we can decide to have an Apollo Project for extending the human lifespan." He gave fair consideration to a number of objections, as I recall; such as, if we lived for centuries, wouldn't we get bored? But that's not the part of this book that has stuck with...
