271. Peter Ward The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
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Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality \\u2022 Church of Perpetual Life in Florida \\u2022 what it means to live forever \\u2022 why lives have doubled in length the past century \\u2022 Stein\\u2019s Law: things that can\\u2019t go on forever won\\u2019t \\u2022 Why do we age and die? \\u2022 how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years \\u2022 escape velocity to reach immortality \\u2022 Aubrey de Grey\\u2019s program \\u2022 tech billionaires programs \\u2022 transhumanists/extropians \\u2022 diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks \\u2022 Ray Kurzweil \\u2022 cryonics \\u2022 nanotechnology \\u2022 brain preservation \\u2022 mind uploading and digital immortality \\u2022 Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory
Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.
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