Is the first 150-year-old alive right now?
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Nate Garvis, one of our Friday Roundtable guests, mentioned Ray Kurzweil's theory that the first person who will live to 150 years is alive right now.
Here's Kurzweil explaining how biotechnology will make this possible:
And here's the reading list for our guests:
David Cazares: 'The Yellow Birds'
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'Home Front Girl' and a Vonnegut biography 'And So It Goes.'
Nate Garvis: 'Wired to Care' and 'Einstein' by Walter Isaacson.
-Stephanie Curtis, social media host