Life-Changing Technologies

(October 23, 2009) Stanford University President John L. Hennessy kicks off reunion weekend with a "state of the university" address as he welcomes alumni and guests. Following his remarks, top faculty share insight into life-changing technologies being developed at Stanford. From reducing greenhouse gas emissions to improving the aging process, from designing smarter and safer automobiles to creating enhanced learning environments, Stanford researchers are building technologies that will alter the way we live, work, learn and heal.

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• disease
• stem cell
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• aging
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[grunder20]

Nowadays, advanced technologies are in reality. Take Android for example. Every cellphone has it.

[felpaluche]

They must be given tribute.

[selftaughtninja]

@GoldHealth Of course they do. I mean remember the dumbasses that created a singularity on earth ? I mean as far as we know it was sucessful and not gonna die. But that is extremely extremely dangerous.. Dangerous technologies are being researched everyday. I don't have a problem with them being researched but they need to happen somewhere else. I'm sure if there are alien life out there. They A) don't do it on their own fucking planet or B) don't put 7 billion ppl at risk for science.

[TZMSocialEvolution]

The only sad thing with this and other similar lectures: Always thinking in terms of money, as if it's as required as air and as permanent as gravity. Oh how we have deluded ourselves, but things are changing, more fundamentally than most are willing to admit. :)

[SealTeam1]

@DawkinsForWeAreMany It was sarcasm. And I believe it was a reply to someone else's comment.

[SealTeam1]

Lets just ignore all problems and forget any issues and let things destroy themselves right? At least they take the time to try and solve problems unlike most of us.

[GoldHealth]

Interesting technoutopianism. You'll see scientists and scholars promising technical fixes for all problems. For example, the female professor who talks about "clean coal." Even if she was right in predicting technology that creates zero pollution when coal is consumed, she forgets that coal mining destroys rivers, mountains, and people. The problem with technoutopians, especially genetic engineers, is they have huge pride/ego/greed, and they ignore negative consequences.

[fesic1]

the chick asking the question starting at 1:04:45 doesnt sound like a stanford student .... she cant even make a sentence without using "you know" all the time.....

[Cyrathil]

"Living longer does mean longer retired living."

And this isn't that bad a prospect, when you actually take what I said in full... I never said stem cells were a panacea. There are plenty of elders who are supporting themselves fairly well, my grandparents being some of them. Combine this with telemorase research, and that number has the possibilities of improving drastically.

But this is all moot. Whether or not we should, stem cell research CAN increase the life span, since it's an average

[hajolino]

Crantil wrote: "We can, because ..... "

I am sorry, but you think too short.

Living longer does mean longer retired living. As longer living retirees do NOT make any contribution to the wellfare of the whole society, they cost the society more money and have to be fed by less and less(!) younger people.

(I will belong to these elders too. :-( )

If our generations did raise more childrens, it might have been ok, but we didn't.

Our descendands will not be willing and able to pay us that.