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Why not immortality?

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A question of biology, technology, and society.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 11
        November 2013
        97 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2524713
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