{"id":76757,"date":"2018-03-11T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T23:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/what-if-billionaires-could-live-forever"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:02:15","slug":"what-if-billionaires-could-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/what-if-billionaires-could-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"What if billionaires could live forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-if-billionaires-could-live-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several billionaires, most of them Californians, have been funding firms involved in developing life-extension technologies. What if they succeed? What if billionaires alive today live indefinitely and get ever richer?<\/p>\n<p>February saw the announcement in Silicon Valley by X Prize founder, serial entrepreneur, and all-round gee-whiz future-technology promoter Peter Diamandis that he had cofounded a new company called Celularity.<\/p>\n<p>He did so together with Dr. Bob Hariri, a renowned biomedical entrepreneur known for innovations in harvesting placental stem cells. Hariri had previously founded Celgene Cellular Therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/what-if-billionaires-could-live-forever\/a-42840013\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/what-if-billionaires-could-live-forever\/a-42840013<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several billionaires, most of them Californians, have been funding firms involved in developing life-extension technologies. What if they succeed? What if billionaires alive today live indefinitely and get ever richer? February saw the announcement in Silicon Valley by X Prize founder, serial entrepreneur, and all-round gee-whiz future-technology promoter Peter Diamandis that he had cofounded a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,2020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-peter-diamandis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76757","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76846,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76757\/revisions\/76846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}