The Immortals: 9. Nerd Rapture
The immortalist movement in Silicon Valley shares a lot with evangelical religions, says Dr Emile P Torres, a philosopher and former Nick Bostrom acolyte. In both, he explains, there’s a heaven in whi...
2 Okt 202314min
The Immortals: 8. The Prophet
A new philosphical movement is gathering steam in Silicon Valley, one that promises immortality by using technology to solve the problem of death. This movement is led by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostr...
25 Sep 202314min
The Immortals: 7. Vitalik
Vitalek Buterin is the billionaire founder of Ethereum, one of the most successful blockchains and cryptocurrencies in the world. With his fortune, he is attempting to solve the problem of death by cr...
25 Sep 202314min
The Immortals: 6. Longevity Escape Velocity
Many of the longevity innovators in the Valley want to extend human life. But there are others who are trying to eliminate death. A lot of them. The tech billionaires who have never been told ‘no’ are...
18 Sep 202314min
The Immortals: 5. The Trial
Loyal for Dogs is one of the companies in the longevity industry doing serious science. They are well-founded, have a killer team, and a very clear mission: to be the first to get a drug that treats a...
18 Sep 202314min
The Immortals: 4. The Hype Cycle
Jesse Karmazin’s Ambrosia Plasma clinic promised the fountain of youth, two litres of young plasma at a time. For a fee, anyone could go to his treatment centre in the redwood forest outside Silicon V...
11 Sep 202315min
The Immortals: 3. The Plasma Clinic
The Conboys’ experiment gave a young Harvard medical school graduate a big idea. But, there is a big gap between the experiments they did with mice in the lab, and pumping young blood into human being...
11 Sep 202314min
The Immortals: 2. The Experiment
Mike and Irina Conboy are a couple of tie-dye clad scientists in the bio-engineering department at the University of Berkeley. When they started researching ageing more than 20 years ago at Stanford, ...
4 Sep 202315min
