Tech titans want to conquer death – but do you really want to live forever?
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
A recent Washington Post article quotes Oracle founder Larry Ellison as saying that death makes him "very angry." In the same piece, eBay co-founder Peter Thiel calls death the "great enemy" of humankind. And Ellison and Thiel are not alone. Other tech titans including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are investing many millions of dollars in attempts to extend the human lifespan and perhaps even conquer death. Says Thiel: "The great unfinished task of the modern world is to turn death from a fact of life into a problem to be solved."