Modern science has done many great things for human health. Quality of life is still better than it has ever been, and we live longer than we used to.
Wealthy people don't just want to live longer. They want to live forever, and they're using their money to try to do that.
All that hype could be short-lived. Yes, and it probably will. There is a chance that the quest for immortality could mark a new low in the history of wealth.
That's not just because it might mean that Jeff Bezos, whose money equals a lot of power, would be able to continue compounding that wealth, but also because such technology might mean that people like Bezos, whose money equals a lot of power, would be able to continue compounding that wealth
Christopher Wareham is a bioethicist at Utrecht University who studies the ethics of aging. The richer you are, the more political influence you have.
It is a bone- chilling hypothesis. Politics is included because of the fact that time is the main reason. Dictators and autocrats would flock to Wareham's still-mythic technological fountain of youth if it weren't for the fact that old leaders and belief systems die, new citizens with fresh ideas are born.
It's not unusual to assume that the makers of such a miracle drug or device might employ some hefty gatekeeping efforts, seeing as how neither wealth nor power, political or otherwise, are historically something that people are too eager to share. Musk is against immortality tech due to the fact that leaders should die at some point.
Some in the field are dealing with these issues in principle. The chief executive of the Hevolution Foundation said that his organization only funds products that can bedemocratized.
He told the outlet that it was of no interest if this was going to be a lot of treatment.
The Altos Labs was founded with the intention of materializing "cellular rejuvenation programming" to "reverse disease and injury" and is committed to helping as many people as possible.
Even though anyone of these organizations has yet to crack the code on immortality, these are just promises. When a lot of power and money are involved, promises are easily broken.
Anyhow. We sacrifice our data to Lord Zucko in order to have eternal life. Prime Day, established globally after The Great Merge, is the only holiday that we have, and it may or may not be somewhere on post-apocolypse Earth wearing a cape, avoiding garlic, and sitting on a huge pile of gold coins. Don't forget to catch you on the other side of mortality.
The start-ups are looking for a cure.
The inventor of immortality tech says that the technology would be very dangerous.
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