How to Live Forever

Part IV in a series on technological evolution. Part I was "If a Time Traveller Saw a Smartphone." Part II was "As Technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?" Part III was "The Problem With Easy Technology." Could technology help to make our minds last forever? Consider the following parable, about a very wealthy man I'll call Nicolas Flamel. As he became older, Flamel became fixated on the idea that he didn't want to die. After considering the problem for a long time, he figured that what ...