Immortals
Last year, former Facebook president Sean Parker, at a cancer treatment innovation event, envisioned an almost fantasy scenario for the near future in which the super-rich can conquer death.
At any rate, he made the following statement: "Because I am a billionaire and I will have access to the best medical care," he said, "I will live to be 160 and become part of a new class of near-immortal overlords."
Eternal life
According to a previous article by Futurism social editor Jake Benes, the reality is that modern medical science has yet to come up with a cure that is more effective than exercise and a healthy diet.
Life expectancy is likely to increase, but there is no guarantee that we will ever unravel the mystery of true immortality.
But that hasn't stopped dreamers, including Parker and other Silicon Valley luminaries, from pouring money into research aimed at drastically extending human life. However, even many experts who study aging are not convinced that death can be cheated.
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Nevertheless, the unpublished closed club of Silicon Valley billionaires (one list of only a few individuals is admirable - Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, etc.) are investing heavily in promising research in the field of life extension and, in the long term, achieving real immortality …
Become super rich
However, according to Parker, with which he cooled the public's enthusiasm for prolonging life last year, such treatment is unlikely to be available to the entire population. If everyone had access, it would quickly lead to overpopulation.
Ultimately, we see that these 21st century attempts to cheat death have been going on for a long time, from the time of Gilgamesh to Dorian Gray and our time inclusive, and, fortunately, have not been crowned with success.
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