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consequences. a philosopher, who i believe you know, certainly i'm sure you know his work, john davis, he wrote a book called the new methuselahs. he said, "imagine a world in which the wealthy few live "on in endless youth, an elite gerontocracy of near mortals." he said, "it would be a world where they behave like ranchers "watching a herd of cattle," that is the likes of you and me, "whose members change with the years, "while they remain in control." that's dystopian. that is truly scary. yes, it's terrifying. time is the most precious thing that we have, you know? discrepancies in life expectancy now, here in england, for example, might be about ten years between rich and poor, or different areas of the country. and whenever that's reported on, it's rightly with a sense of outrage. you know, something must be done. now, imagine if those differences weren't a decade, but were centuries or thousands of years. i hope we would find that unacceptable. you, in your latest book, entitled should you choose to live forever?, you debate

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