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Slowing the passing of time is Parabiotic treatments carry a hefty Technology’s unimagined
one point of view of Immortal. price tag while offering to infuse possibilities for the future of Virtual
Recent Nobel laureate, Elizabeth young blood to regain vitality. New Reality, like seamless transitions
Blackburn, and team are actively technologies are concentrated on between virtual and augmented
working to slow down the aging repairing and augmenting cells to reality may play a role here, too.
process. Groundbreaking work in repair DNA directly using CRISPR or The concept of Virternity would
3D printing for organ donations, other gene-editing technologies. allow humans to transfer their
and other medical advancements, consciousness into a virtual realm,
are offering opportunities for Regeneration may be the key to a wholly immersive endeavor to
longevity that were once just the unlocking immortality. replace the physical reality with
stuff of science fiction. a purely digital one, actually
presenting a form of immortality.
“the only thing wrong with immortAlity is thAt
it tends to go on forever.” - herb cAen, columnist
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