{"id":73291,"date":"2017-10-14T04:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-new-frontiers-of-indulgence"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T11:02:32","slug":"the-new-frontiers-of-indulgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-new-frontiers-of-indulgence","title":{"rendered":"The new frontiers of indulgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-frontiers-of-indulgence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of people who believe\u2014based on data, not faith\u2014that humans can become (almost) immortal is growing, and includes the likes of scientists, billionaires, engineers and billionaire-engineers. For instance, investor Peter Thiel has donated to the anti-ageing cause, in addition to the $500,000 (around \u20b93.2 crore) Palo Alto Longevity Prize for anyone who can radically extend the life of a mammal. Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, too has donated $335 million to scientists studying ageing before he decided to redirect his foundation\u2019s grants toward eliminating polio in 2013.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When, in the future, expensive baubles cease to hold the same novelty they do today, redefined concepts of luxury are what the super-rich can pick from.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-frontiers-of-indulgence2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>By harichandan arakali forbes india staff <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbesindia.com\/article\/best-things-money-can-buy\/the-new-frontiers-of-indulgence\/48359\/1\">http:\/\/www.forbesindia.com\/article\/best-things-money-can-buy...ce\/48359\/1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who believe\u2014based on data, not faith\u2014that humans can become (almost) immortal is growing, and includes the likes of scientists, billionaires, engineers and billionaire-engineers. For instance, investor Peter Thiel has donated to the anti-ageing cause, in addition to the $500,000 (around \u20b93.2 crore) Palo Alto Longevity Prize for anyone who can radically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291","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=73291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}