So, are you saying that curing skin wrinkling might be light a lighter form of robust mouse rujevenition and mprize stuff?
I would certainly say that. Sucessfully demonstrating any one of these two rejuvenation strategies would strengthen the case for SENS; however, with one important distinction between the two efforts: a skin wrinkle cure could be sold to the general public and make untold billions for further SENS research.
Maybe, maybe stopping skin wrinkling is another good tool. Robust Wrinkle Rejuvenation...
Remember though, although those would be hard hitting tools to weild if we had them, informing people also works. Many of us are finding that people arent in a pro aging trance as much as they are just un informed. What happens is that a lot of us know that people are seeing the articles about this, and ads for the conferences and stuff, and we are wondering why people arent supporting this more. "Its the damn pro aging trance" many of us say. Thats not exactly it though. People dont beleive stuff just because they heard about something this big once or twice. They need to hear about it mulitiple times from multiple sources that they view as at least fairly credible before they begin to beleive it, in many cases.
Exactly! I'm arguing that it's highly probable that an anti-wrinkle breakthough that makes an 80 year old person look as if they are only around 21 years, would garner an almost non-stop repetition in the public airwaves and magazines, thereby, helping our case. Sure, "6 year old mice" would hit the news, but it would not be an incessant converage by the media. After a few days, with no repetition, the public will loose focus. Many people who aren't scientifically inclined (aka most Americans) will probably not even know about the mice, or even remember it well even for more than a few days due to the lack of daily reminders. How many people in the general public are aware of recent biotech advances, for example, the work on iPS cells, or demonstrations of the great pluripotency of hematopoietic stem cells?
On the other hand, a sucessful wrinkleSENS will get the initial coverage, plus the constant coverage of beauty shows, which are apparently on from early morning to mid-day -- everyday, filling attention grabbing air-time -- and magazines. The hosts will say "Sure, these other products are nice but if you want the best, ladies get wrinkleSENS! Oh, and free cars for everyone in our audience because I'm so happy I dont look old." Beauty stores all over the malls and shopping plazas will display large banners saying they sell by-and-large the most effective anti-wrinkle product ever developed -- wrinkleSENS -- at their store. Futher repetition. No one will want to look older than their grandma or her schoolmates! They will hear about it and buy it. The Economist article I posted in the first post said that
Americans spend $160 billion every year on beauty. That's a lot of money on products that deliver only very modest rejuvenation by my judgement. Imagine how many billions more people will spend on a sucessful anti-wrinkle treatment that makes the user appear to be only 21 years old! With a sucessfully commercialized wrinkleSENS product, Aubrey's current wildest dreams about immaculate funding will seem to be mere glitzy breadcrumbs. Imagine how far SENS could go, if SENS would fund itself like it was a fortune 500 company!
If wrinkleSENS is a success, we could even increase the M-Prize by several orders of magnitude!
It seems to me you have a good idea here. Besides that, that brings up a good target area. Im going to add this into different target crowd mixes. Just sending ads for the cause in conjunction with or near anti wrinkle ads will get through.
Thank you! Let's hope others view this strategy as an important part of boosting SENS too!
Edited by 31stCentury, 16 August 2009 - 03:14 AM.