Introducing - Intrigue: The Immortals

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Over the last 100 years, we’ve seen global life expectancy double. Could it happen again? In The Immortals, technology reporter and psychologist Aleks Krotoski explores the frontiers of the extreme longevity pioneers. They've made their money in Silicon Valley. And with their technology solutions they've ushered in the world that we live in today. Some of them now want to solve the problem of aging - or even death itself - and they are making bigger strides than we may think. Can they? Should they? Listen to the box set on BBC Sounds from Monday 4 September 2023. A Pillowfort production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.0	Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs
0:07.9	have created the world we live in today,
0:10.2	but they are not willing to stop there.
0:13.4	They plan to create the world of the future, the far future.
0:18.3	And that's because they are building the technology
0:20.8	that's going to keep them alive forever.
0:23.2	After billions of years of existence on this Earth,
0:27.3	we are baby steps away from creating super intelligence,
0:30.9	potentially the most extraordinary event
0:33.8	in the entire galaxy.
0:35.8	And it happens to be in the very moment that you and I are alive.
0:40.6	This is a story about radically extending the human lifespan
0:44.9	and the people driving this movement.
0:47.3	It begins with infusing young blood,
0:50.2	and it ends with us becoming post-human.
0:54.8	We have an enormously powerful technology sector
0:58.6	with maybe 20 to 50 very, very powerful individuals
1:03.8	who have the ability to shape our futures
1:06.6	along their technological visions.
1:09.4	I'm Alex Kratowski, and in this series,
1:11.9	I'm asking, who's behind the modern search for immortality?
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