Two articles appeared today that made me look twice. One was a study that showed how testosterone contributed to aging in males. The second focused on the influence of infections on brain chemistry. Extending Lives in Males If this were a how to guide you would be saying “ouch&#

Last week we wrote about Baxter, the all purpose robot for small manufacturers. Hard on its heels comes a major manufacturer, known more for its automobiles than robots, Toyota. Toyota’s new robot is called the Human Support Robot or HSR, and is geared specifically for the disab

Welcome to this week’s 21st Century Technology headlines. Each week I select a few interesting stories about technological innovation that can help us tackle the problems we face this century. As always I encourage you to comment, ask questions and provide input on topics I write abou

The manifesto of the 10,000 members of Initiative 2045 begins with the following: “Honorable businessmen and businesswomen, members of the Forbes richest list: human life is unique and priceless.  It is only when we have to part with life do we realize just how much we have not

Imagine not dying….ever! Instead all of your thoughts get uploaded to a computer brain in the body of a robot and you continue to experience consciousness through the machine’s memory circuits. Well that’s a story that caught my eye this morning as I was reading thro

In our last blog we introduced telomeres, the genetic information that slowly vanishes from chromosomes each time cells divide. Researchers who study aging see a correlation between those vanishing telomeres and growing older. But I am getting ahead of myself. Before we can talk about

Humanity is closer today to immortality than it has ever been. We have surpassed Darwinian survival of the fittest to reach a new stage in evolution, creating humans reshaped by advances in biology combined with technology. In the 21st century one of our human challenges will be ̵