My initial reaction is to agree with you. And give you a high-five for pointing out that aging is not an illness to be cured - it's not! It's a process through which a person 'builds character'. But I suspect that we like electronics and computers and chemicals and powertools and blowtorches and sledgehammers for the same reasons - we love problem solving. As human nature, we want to solve a problem or destroy it so we can move on to the next problem. Accepting the aging process doesn't fit the bill. The only thing I worry about is that when our bodies are broken back down for the earth - via decomposition, cremation, or whatever, what will the quality be? A person who eats a high amount of preservatives will actually have a better preserved body after death; it takes longer to decompose, but when it does decompose it is worse. Then plants grow out of that soil and cows eat them and we eat the cows. Meth addicts: I don't want to eat your grass!

Absolutely. That was my first thought when I read this article: I wear hearing-aids, which not only would interfere with the sounds coming through the phone (whether or not they ARE digital hearing aids). Plus, the fact that I've worn analog hearing-aids with constant circuit noise for 26 years, then digital hearing-aids for the past year, means that my cochlea and ear drum are already screwed. If they DID perform such identification testing on me, they'd find me no more or less of a terrorist than the next severely hearing-impaired person with my situation.