May You Be Forever Young

There are a few Aubrey de Grey videos around, so I thought I’d do a round-up of some of the ones I like, with the videos embedded for convenience. There’s a more comprehensive list here.

Presentations
First, here are a few videos of presentations made at conferences.

This is de Grey’s presentation to the Immortality Institute Conference on November 5, 2005. He does the stuff that should be familiar to his audience in about 13 minutes, then then discusses the SENS Challenge, which has now been judged. If you’re asking, “What’s this guy on about?”, then this is half an hour well spent. (28:49 on Google Video. Link)

The next one is his presentation to the TED 2006 Conference. Here he is not speaking to the converted, so there’s a fair discussion of his motivations, and an overview of his approach. Very spirited. (23:05 on Google Video. Link)

“Taking the Defeat of Aging Seriously: The Time is Now” is the title of de Grey’s talk at the Ted Global conference. Again, a lot of overview material and some interesting Q&A. He fields a question at the end where a woman quotes Neal Donald Walsh (Conversations with God). As someone who believes that a spiritual (not religious) component is important to the longevity process, it is interesting to hear his response. (29:59 on Google Video. Link)

De Grey’s presentation at Poptech, put on by Popular Technology, is preceded by an amusing, if disturbing, song called “It’s Gonna Be the Future Soon”. De Grey’s talk is called Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS): How Foreseeable Bioengineering Can Comprehensively Reverse Human Aging. The video qualtiy is pretty poor, but because he has a bit more time, he covers a bit more ground. (45:06 on Google Video. Link)

Media Encounters
The following are media appearances.

This one is on Bloomberg Encounters. It is a good look at social implications, and is light on the technical side. The inteviewer, Janet Street-Porter, has done a reasonable job of doing her preparation, so the discussion has some depth. (12:29 on Google Video. Link)

Next, a short and reasonably sober interview with decent questions, from CBC Canada Now. (5:53 on YouTube. Link)

Next is an interview with on GMTV’s Good Morning. This one’s worth watching, if for no other reason, than the woman interviewer equates radical life extension with the End of Christmans As We Know It. Otherwise, a reasonable high-level pitch, and de Grey handles the inanities well. (7:23 on YouTube. Link)

And if you feel like pursuing the issue in Italian, this one’s definitely for you: (2:23 on YouTube. Link)