Prolonging lives, perhaps eternally, has long been the stuff of science fiction. Martine Rothblatt's vision of using computers and software to do this is the latest incarnation. Her projects include:
terasemweb.org
Terasemweb.org is the Internet home base for Rothblatt's Terasem Movement Transreligion Inc. It describes Rothblatt's religion as one that believes that "technology will soon enable joyful immortality."
lifenaut.com
A social-networking Web site launched by Rothblatt, it claims about 7,500 members.
cyberev.org
On this site, people can post pictures, video and more. Theoretically, researchers can use this information to create a digital "mindfile" of the person, which could be broadcast into space or turned into software.
unither.com/utcabout.asp
Rothblatt founded this biotech company to find a treatment for her daughter's rare, life-threatening disease. Today, Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics has a stock market value of about $2.6 billion.
