A growing number of tech billionaires have decided they want to use their enormous wealth to try and help humans “cheat death.”
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s Larry Page, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Palantir’s Peter Thiel are just a few of the super-rich who have taken a keen interest in the fast-emerging field of longevity, according to interviews, books and media reports.
While breakthroughs are far from guaranteed, they hope that various medicines, therapies and other life science technologies will enable humans to live well beyond 100 years old and possibly to 200, 300, or even longer.
But are their efforts going to benefit humanity as a whole or just an elite few? It’s a tricky question that divides opinion.
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