{"id":35326,"date":"2017-03-14T08:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:13","slug":"our-dystopian-future-as-immortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals","title":{"rendered":"Our Dystopian Future as Immortals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought this interesting enough to share:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoltan_Istvan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" data-attachment-id=\"2674\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pathofthebeagle.com\/2017\/03\/11\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals\/zoltanistvan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"364,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d0\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"Zoltan Istvan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg?w=364\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg\" alt=\"Zoltan Istvan\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg 201w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg?w=101&h=150 101w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals2.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px)  100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoltan_Istvan\">Zoltan Istvan<\/a> was my favorite presidential candidate in 2016. He toured the country in a bus modeled to look like a coffin, with the message that death is a curable disease.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just people on the fringe who are involved in the anti-aging cause. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calico_(company)\">sister company<\/a> of Google called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calicolabs.com\/\">Calico<\/a> whose goal is \u201ctackling aging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Kurzweil\">Ray Kurzweil<\/a>, inventor, senior engineer at Google and holder of 21 honorary doctorates, has written a book called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fantastic-Voyage-Live-Enough-Forever\/dp\/1579549543?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever<\/a>. At age 69, he expects technology to improve enough in his lifetime that he will live forever. (In the meantime, he takes extremely good care of himself!) <\/p>\n<p>But hold on a second. While we\u2019re waiting for Istvan, Calico, and Kurzweil succeed, let\u2019s take a moment to ponder the possible dystopian consequences.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/pathofthebeagle.com\/2017\/03\/11\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals\/\">https:\/\/pathofthebeagle.com\/2017\/03\/11\/our-dystopian-future-as-immortals\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this interesting enough to share: Zoltan Istvan was my favorite presidential candidate in 2016. He toured the country in a bus modeled to look like a coffin, with the message that death is a curable disease. And it\u2019s not just people on the fringe who are involved in the anti-aging cause. There is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,269,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58409,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326\/revisions\/58409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}