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The onAir platform and hubs enable members to:

• Control when, where, and how to share their knowledge;
• Find their interest communities & Co-create networks & hubs with them;
• Discover new knowledge & Develop Innovative Solutions;
• Find Common Ground & Make a Difference.

Our Future onAir hub aggregates the best knowledge, people, and organizations seeking to better address challenges related to Nature, Health, Science, Technology, Society, and Nations.  Our support for the People’s Internet hub reflects our commitment to social media that are based on Decentralized Social Network Protocols.

The Thriving ALAP Hub is focused on bringing together information, experts, organizations, policy makers, and the public to address how to better address the challenge for how each person can thrive in today’s world … what  people and organizations can do to enable more people to thrive over our current lifespan as well as discover how thriving beyond 100 years.

If you or your organization would like to curate a post within this hub (e.g. a profile post on your organization), contact thriving@onair.cc.

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Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled limit of 125 years. Several researchers in the area, along with “life extensionists”, “immortalists” or “longevists” (those who wish to achieve longer lives themselves), postulate that future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation, stem cells, regenerative medicine, molecular repair, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, and organ replacement (such as with artificial organs or xenotransplantations) will eventually enable humans to have indefinite lifespans (agerasia) through complete rejuvenation to a healthy youthful condition. The ethical ramifications, if life extension becomes a possibility, are debated by bioethicists.

The sale of purported anti-aging products such as supplements and hormone replacement is a lucrative global industry. For example, the industry that promotes the use of hormones as a treatment for consumers to slow or reverse the aging process in the US market generated about $50 billion of revenue a year in 2009. The use of such hormone products has not been proven to be effective or safe.

My name is Scott Joy, Chair of onAir Platforms,. This custom onAir post focuses on three inter-related onAir projects that are based on the onAir Knowledge & Information Sharing System (KISS).

These three projects are:

1. ONAIR NETWORKS – public online networks and hubs managed by nonpartisan nonprofits (e.g. Democracy onAir and Science onAir) that brings together information, experts, organizations, and the public to facilitate learning about, discussing, and collaborating to develop and implement solutions to global as well as national, state, and local challenges;
2. US ONAIR NETWORK – a national United States onAir Hub with 50 onAir state hubs;
3. THRIVING ALAP HUB – which is the home or primary hub this post is located. I will be assembling and creating news and blog posts that will be shared with other posts in the Thriving As Long As Possible.