{"id":101610,"date":"2020-01-30T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/immortality-inc-review-birthdays-without-end"},"modified":"2020-01-30T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:24:10","slug":"immortality-inc-review-birthdays-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/immortality-inc-review-birthdays-without-end","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immortality, Inc.\u2019 Review: Birthdays Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immortality-inc-review-birthdays-without-end.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid today\u2019s technological wizardry, it\u2019s easy to forget that several decades have passed since a single innovation has dramatically raised the quality of life for millions of people. Summoning a car with one\u2019s phone is nifty, but it pales in comparison with discovering penicillin or electrifying cities. Artificial intelligence is being heralded as the next big thing, but a cluster of scientists, technologists and investors are aiming higher. In the vernacular of Silicon Valley, where many of them are based, their goal is nothing less than disrupting death, and their story is at the center of \u201cImmortality, Inc.\u201d by science journalist Chip Walter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The efforts of scientists and investors to defy the aging process\u2014and extend the human life span\u2014are still in their infancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid today\u2019s technological wizardry, it\u2019s easy to forget that several decades have passed since a single innovation has dramatically raised the quality of life for millions of people. Summoning a car with one\u2019s phone is nifty, but it pales in comparison with discovering penicillin or electrifying cities. Artificial intelligence is being heralded as the next [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}