Stepping Up To Make a Difference


		"We are on the verge of a revolution in medicine: understanding, treating, and ultimately preventing the causes of degenerative aging. But medical revolutions only happen if we all stand up in support of funding and research. We did it for cancer. We're doing it for Alzheimer's. We can do it for aging - and create an era of longer, healthier lives!"

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Stepping Up To Make a Difference

There's nothing quite like putting your money where your mouth is. It's something that more advocates and volunteers supporting healthy life extension are going to have to do in order to accelerate progress in advocacy, education and public awareness. I'm very pleased to see this initiative on the part of Mark Patterson:

As most of you know I've founded Big Picture Tours for one reason: to fund rejuvenation research. For now, 100% of this focus translates to supporting the Mprize for rejuvenation and longevity research.
Big Picture Tours combines advanced Internet technologies with our own proprietary server-side ClientSmart(TM) technology to deliver bezel to bezel full-screen presentations of unmatched photographic quality. Our server side technology detects the client aspect ratio, connection speed and operating system and then streams a presentation (choosing among 18 versions) best suited for the client.

The result is that businesses and organizations are able to "tell their story" over the Internet in ways never before possible.

Some of you operate your own businesses and could benefit from this technology, others may work for businesses that could benefit. For the first twenty projects referred through contacts on the Mprize list or any Mprize 300 member, Big Picture Tours is offering to donate all revenues above our cost. This will translate to thousands of dollars donated directly to the Mprize. Please contact me at Mark@BigPictureTours.com for further details.

Below is a link to 4 of our recently completed projects so that you can see the quality of our work first hand. Once you've got a show running, right click and select "Full Screen".

http://www.BigPictureTours.com/GreatestHits.aspx

A very good job; that's something for the rest of us to top - and to spread the word about.

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Posted by: Joey Adams at July 1, 2005 6:38 AM

I've been following a similar path. I'm a programmer by trade, but as I got more and more interested in life extension I began to think about how I myself could help bring about the scientific advances that we need. I thought about switching careers to bio-tech/genetics. Where else could I do more good right? I researched schools, I read everything I could find online, I even bought some text books and read them.

After awhile I decided that it's not more researchers the world needs, it's money to fund them and the leadership to organize them. So, as of now I'm about 50% finished with my business degree! A business degree that I'm getting with the sole purpose of gaining wealth to help fund life extension research.

[Posted by: Joey Adams at July 1, 2005 6:38 AM]

Posted by: Reason at July 1, 2005 9:22 AM

A number of us are trying to balance current work with attempts to become wealthy enough to make a difference. Capital and investment are what makes the world go round...

The other sensible option would seem to be persuasion, education and advocacy aimed at folks who already have their millions (or more). Everyone has skin in this game, so to speak. Everyone is aging.

[Posted by: Reason at July 1, 2005 9:22 AM]

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