{"id":128102,"date":"2021-09-25T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever-could-benefit-humanity-as-a-whole-heres-why"},"modified":"2021-09-25T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:23:30","slug":"silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever-could-benefit-humanity-as-a-whole-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever-could-benefit-humanity-as-a-whole-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s quest to live forever could benefit humanity as a whole \u2014 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever-could-benefit-humanity-as-a-whole-heres-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All things must die, according to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, but that could be about to change.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of tech billionaires have decided they want to use their enormous wealth to try to help humans \u201ccheat death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>\u2019s Jeff Bezos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet<\/a>\u2019s Larry Page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ORCL\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle<\/a>\u2019s Larry Ellison and Palantir\u2019s Peter Thiel are just a few of the super-rich who have taken a keen interest in the fast-emerging field of longevity, according to interviews, books and media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All things must die, according to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, but that could be about to change. A growing number of tech billionaires have decided they want to use their enormous wealth to try to help humans \u201ccheat death.\u201d Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos, Alphabet\u2019s Larry Page, Oracle\u2019s Larry Ellison and Palantir\u2019s Peter Thiel are just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128102","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=128102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}