{"id":76917,"date":"2018-03-14T17:43:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/silicon-valley-billionaire-pays-10k-to-be-killed-and-have-his-brain-preserved"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:43:51","slug":"silicon-valley-billionaire-pays-10k-to-be-killed-and-have-his-brain-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/silicon-valley-billionaire-pays-10k-to-be-killed-and-have-his-brain-preserved","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley billionaire pays $10k to be killed and have his brain preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valley-billionaire-pays-10k-to-be-killed-and-have-his-brain-preserved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A SILICON Valley billionaire is paying the ultimate price for the chance of immortality: death.<\/p>\n<p>Well that, and a spare ten grand.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneur Sam Altman is one of 25 people who have splashed the cash to join a waiting list at Nectome \u2013 a startup that promises to upload your brain into a computer to grant eternal life to your consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/5809555\/sam-altman-nectome-brain-computer\/\">https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/5809555\/sam-altman-nectome-brain-computer\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SILICON Valley billionaire is paying the ultimate price for the chance of immortality: death. Well that, and a spare ten grand. Entrepreneur Sam Altman is one of 25 people who have splashed the cash to join a waiting list at Nectome \u2013 a startup that promises to upload your brain into a computer to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76917","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}