{"id":84688,"date":"2018-11-13T01:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/when-silicon-valley-gets-religion-and-vice-versa"},"modified":"2018-11-13T01:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:23:03","slug":"when-silicon-valley-gets-religion-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/when-silicon-valley-gets-religion-and-vice-versa","title":{"rendered":"When Silicon Valley gets religion \u2014 and vice versa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-silicon-valley-gets-religion-and-vice-versa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the tech world\u2019s brightest luminaries hope to postpone the unpleasantness of death, or avoid it entirely. Calico, a secretive company founded by Google, is looking for ways to lengthen human lifespans. Billionaires Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, and Jeff Bezos have all contributed huge sums for research into anti-aging treatments. Ray Kurzweil, one of the tech industry\u2019s leading futurists, has described three scientific and technological \u201cbridges\u201d that might lead to radically longer life.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Devotees of many religions believe in a soul that lives forever. In transhumanism, techies have found their own version of eternal life \u2014 and it\u2019s finding unlikely fans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2018\/11\/07\/when-silicon-valley-gets-religion-and-vice-versa\/L5xOYtgwd4VImwcj52YxtK\/story.html\">https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2018\/11\/07\/when-silicon-va...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the tech world\u2019s brightest luminaries hope to postpone the unpleasantness of death, or avoid it entirely. Calico, a secretive company founded by Google, is looking for ways to lengthen human lifespans. Billionaires Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, and Jeff Bezos have all contributed huge sums for research into anti-aging treatments. Ray Kurzweil, one of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,2018,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84688","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=84688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}