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Self driving car √
Death ?
I see two reasons not to proceed with this:
1. We already know how to extend life substantially: eat more fruit & vegetables, cut down on salt, sugar, alcohol, tobacco, red meat & animal fat. Get more (gentle) exercise.
2. By 2050 it is expected that we will be trying to feed twice as many people as we can't feed now. That's with current mortality rates. If the mortality rate fell, population growth would be even greater.
Life extension methods listed above are cheap, or in some cases, cash positive (less alcohol, tobacco, red meat). If the Google project is successful & substantial life extension becomes available to all, & unlike the currently available life extension methods, people choose to use them, without an equally substantial fall in the birth rate, the resulting population explosion will make the 2050 prediction above, seem like a mere fire cracker.
On the other hand, perhaps the life extension methods listed above represent all of the cheap measures, & Google will discover something (or somethings) that are only available to the wealthy. In this case, the actual increase in population will be smaller (depending on just how expensive life extension is), but will cause a disproportionate increase in pollution & other forms of environmental degradation, because, all other things being equal, the wealthier a person is, the more of the world's resources can be consumed, with proportionately greater impact on the environment.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-is-launching-a-company-that-hopes-to-cure-death-2013-9#share
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2152422,00.html&sa=U&ei=PbRGUsKWL6f_iAee7YGgBQ&ved=0CCMQFjAD&usg=AFQjCNE6VmyG24Oj2K4DTZXkonnB5RVmNQ
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/bill-gates-on-calico-2013-9
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