The Big Idea
Houses last only as long as they’re proactively maintained - all damages repaired, dangers successfully confronted, parts replaced, and so on and so forth. The same is increasingly becoming true for our bodies and brains. At this point in time, we fully understand the methods underlying the maintenance of a house, but we have yet to come to an understanding of all of life’s biological principles. However, we’re coming to realize that aging is not a single process but a group of related processes. Groundbreaking new strategies for countering and even reversing each of these individual processes are emerging, such that the next few decades will usher in a new era in human history - a true “fantastic voyage” in every sense of the term.

This book, then, is intended as a guideto living long enough in good health and spirits to take full advantage of the technological breakthroughs that are coming and which will effect revolutionary changes in the way we live life. These include procedures such as gene therapy and the utilization of micro-machines. We need not wait for these new super-technologies to be introduced, say the authors, to start improving our lives; we can do so through the methods they introduce in this book.
Lastly the authors also provide a link to their website, fantastic-voyage.net, for more tips, further details and updates.

Kurzwel is one of the worlds leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists. A recipient of the National Medal of Technology and an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, among many other honors, he is the author of three previous books: The Age of Spiritual Machines, The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, and The Age of Intelligent Machines.

Founder and medical director of Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, Colorado, a leading longevity clinic. Certified in antiaging medicine, he lectures internationally on longevity and antiaging strategies.