Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Disrupting Death
Why become a multibillionaire if you can’t live long enough to spend it?
They’ve disrupted transport.
They’ve disrupted the internet.
They’ve disrupted e-commerce.
They’ve disrupted social connection.
They’ve disrupted online communication.
Silicon Valley titans have disrupted just about everything, yet one frontier remains unsolved, one driven by fear, ego and hubris:
Immortality.
A batshit crazy story caught my eye last week. It involves Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old multi-millionaire attempting to slow down his aging. How exactly? By using blood transfusions from his 17-year-old son. Or, more specifically, the process takes a liter of blood from the youngest and separates the plasma from it before re-infusing it into Johnson. What’s even weirder about the whole thing is that some of Johnson’s blood is then transfused into his 70-year-old father, completing the trifecta of blood swapping. According to an Instagram post by Johnson, it was the “world’s first multi-generational plasma exchange.”
Johnson, who made his fortune as the founder of Braintree, a web and mobile payment company sold to PayPal, is a…
