Immortality, Inc.: A field guide to eternal tedium
As we huddle in our homes during this charming pandemic summer, Silicon Valley’s finest have apparently decided that what the world really needs isn’t a vaccine or functioning government - but a way for rich men to never die. Because billionaires clearly don’t have enough advantages already. Today several biotech companies, fuelled by Silicon Valley fortunes, are devoted to “life extension” — or as some put it, to solving “the problem of death.” ~ The Men Who Want to Live Forever, Dara Horn, New York Times, Jan 2018. ...