Misspent Youth by Peter Hamilton

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Jeff Baker is a famous philanthropist and the inventor of technology that replaced the internet with a 'datasphere'. He is the focus of Europe's groundbreaking new project: an attempt to rejuvenate a human being. After 15 months in a medical facility Jeff is released looking like a healthy 20 year old; he is 78.

Not to be compared with the Night's Dawn trilogy, which was breathtaking, but entirely readable.

Comments

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Writing like mine - I took up IT, not too dissimilar. My handwriting has atrophied and I make no apologies for it. It also degrades if I get excited because my hand can't keep up with my head.

When taking my finals at university the b--- sat us down in a room at a rickety desk with paper and pens and said WRITE! After training us for years how to type. After 15 minutes my hand ached. I looked around and saw that I was by no means alone in massaging my hand/wrist/elbow. And of all the questions they ask they want you to write a program - on a piece of paper, even trivial programs - do you know how hard that is? Paper featuring a decided lack of cut and paste or just backspace for a start.