Venki Ramakrishnan

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313 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 25 Apr

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No company lasts forever.

You could even say the same thing about cities.

And while they're working,

Nobody imagines that this city is not going to exist one day.

But history is full of cities that were flourishing hundreds of years ago and today are in ruins.

So I think aging is more generally a property of complex systems.

I personally believe that if not impossible, it's extremely difficult.

I would put it in the same category as our ability to settle in a different galaxy or even on Mars.

There's no physical law that says we can't colonize Mars or we can't travel to a different galaxy.

But in practice, the difficulties are enormous.

It's impossible today.

And we don't know when it'll be possible.

And I would put...

That's one way of looking at it, but that's not entirely true.

For example, if you had a car, well, I'll give you a better example.

I have a bicycle.

My bicycle is from 1978.

And over the course of time, I have replaced just about every part on that bicycle.

So I think of it as the same bicycle, but it's been constantly replaced and renewed.

And you might do the same thing with a car.

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