Silicon Valley is trying to make humans eternal – and succeeding

Media player for reading the article in English: . Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesnโ€™t seem particularly ambitious. Dmitry Itskov, the โ€œgodfatherโ€ of the Russian Internet, says his goal is to live to 10,000; Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, finds the notion of accepting mortality โ€œincomprehensible,โ€ and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, hopes to someday โ€œcure death.โ€These titans [Read more...]