{"id":13684,"date":"2015-03-12T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13684"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:04","slug":"quoted-tech-billionaires-and-human-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/quoted-tech-billionaires-and-human-immortality","title":{"rendered":"Quoted: Tech billionaires and human immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Levi Sumagaysay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/author\/lsumagaysay\/\" rel=\"author\">Levi Sumagaysay<\/a> \u2014 siliconbeat<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cWhen I am successful in realizing this mega-project, then I will finally have 10,000 years for numerous hobbies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/03\/13\/silicon-valley-trying-make-humans-immortal-and-finding-some-success-311402.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitry Itskov<\/a>, founder of the 2045 Initiative, which aims to transfer our brains and human consciousness to robot avatars instead of bodies that weaken and die. Itskov is a billionaire who\u2019s known as the godfather of the Russian Internet. He also apparently has plenty of hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>Think tech isn\u2019t working on big problems? Newsweek checks on the progress of the 2045 Initiative and other efforts \u2014 including in Silicon Valley \u2014 to cheat death. The efforts are funded by other deep-pocketed titans of tech: Peter Thiel of PayPal fame has given money to the Methuselah Foundation, which is working to find drugs that cure age-related damage to the body\u2019s cells. Oracle founder Larry Ellison\u2019s Ellison Medical Foundation distributes grants to those who are researching aging. As we\u2019ve written, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/2014\/08\/12\/googles-anti-aging-health-tech-spinoff-calico-now-has-a-website\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google spinoff Calico<\/a>\u2018s stated mission is to \u201charness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.\u201d Google\u2019s Larry Page has also backed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/2013\/01\/28\/quoted-ray-kurzweil-on-humans-nanobots-and-living-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singularity University<\/a>; co-founders Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis are big fans of immortality \u2014 or at least living till 700.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/2015\/03\/06\/quoted-tech-billionaires-and-human-immortality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Levi Sumagaysay \u2014 siliconbeat \u201cWhen I am successful in realizing this mega-project, then I will finally have 10,000 years for numerous hobbies.\u201d \u2014 Dmitry Itskov, founder of the 2045 Initiative, which aims to transfer our brains and human consciousness to robot avatars instead of bodies that weaken and die. Itskov is a billionaire who\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55472,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions\/55472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}