Inside The Immortality Business

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  • Inside The Immortality Business
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/joshdean/are-we-warming-up-to-cryonics

    If ever a group is going to coalescence behind the idea of obviating death as we know it, it’s the one currently ruling Silicon Valley, which came of age at a time when it really felt like the right combination of smart people and money could solve any problem. And the most intriguing name to sniff around cryonics publicly is Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor who co-founded eBay and was the first outside investor in Facebook. Thiel, who has made no secret of his belief in experimental science, and of his interest in technologies that could suspend or eliminate aging, has a separate fund set up to invest in more outré scientific endeavors. And Breakout Labs, as it’s known, has provided seed capital to two cryonics-related start-ups founded by former Alcor employees.

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