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Rapture: Human Immortality and Electronic Civilization. Publish America. ISBN 978-1-4489-3367-9. Bova, Ben (2000). Immortality: How Science Is Extending Your Life Span-and Changing the World. New York: Avon. ISBN 978-0-380-79318-1. Cave, Stephen (2012). Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization. Crown. ISBN 978-0-307 ...
Embryonic stem cells and germ cells have also been described as immortal. [8] [9] Immortal cell lines of cancer cells can be created by induction of oncogenes or loss of tumor suppressor genes. One way to induce immortality is through viral-mediated induction of the large T-antigen, [10] commonly introduced through simian virus 40 (SV-40). [11]
Gilgamesh fails two tests and does not become immortal, realising instead that mortals attain immortality through lasting works of civilization and culture. Gilgamesh's story is among the oldest stories recorded. [16] Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China who reigned during 259 BC–210 BC, also sought immortality in his old age.
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Just last year, he warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race. These latest comments come just days before Hawking is scheduled to give this year's BBC Reith Lectures, which ...
The term "eternal oblivion" has been used in international treaties, such as in Article II of the Treaty of Westphalia 1648. [13] [14] It has also been used in legislation such as in the English Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660, where the phrase used is "perpetual oblivion" (it appears in several of the articles in the act).
In 1967 the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" written by Harlan Ellison chronicles the digitally immortal life of protagonists living within a hellscape reality. In the TV series Caprica a digital copy of a person is created and outlives its real counterpart after the person dies in a terrorist attack. [31] [32]