NOW THAT I’M YOUNGER, I’M THINKING ABOUT BECOMING A FATHER

BEFORE WE GOT married way back in 2000, my wife and I decided we didn’t want children. As a transhumanist, I would sometimes quip, “We’ll have kids when we’re younger.” My nontranshumanist wife usually responded to this witticism with slightly exasperated eye rolling.

Now it’s the 2050s and I’m about to celebrate my 100th birthday. Forty-some years ago, Harvard geneticist George Church predicted that researchers would be able to reverse aging