This essay overlooks the most likely path to life extension, which is our ability to snapshot the brain's electrical/chemical storage. Always back up your data! The speed of progress in computing is fast outpacing medical research, and at the end of the day, the human brain is just a computer of sorts. Historically it's been orders of magnitude too complex to understand, but the gap is closing fast.

Obviously this raises a million different questions, such as what to do exactly with the data, and whether it can exist outside it's biological substrates.

But the concept of life as data is worth noting in any conversation about the human lifespan.