Via the Immortality Institute forums, I note that "Do You Want To Live Forever?" is now up at Google Video: a "Channel 4 documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist Dr. Aubrey de Grey ... This show is all about the radical ideas of a [biomedical gerontologist] called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process. He describes his work as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)." I've concluded that "eccentric" actually means "has ideas I would never have" in common parlance. In a world of people who accept the status quo - no matter how terrible - and barely look beyond their noses, we need more visionaries, iconoclasts and driven, unreasonable people. They are the source of progress. The video is well-regarded by the folk at the Immortality Institute; you should take the time to watch.

Link: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=69&t=14388