Various technologies and methods have been developed by the world's richest people to fulfill their ambition to live longer. From Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, they are racing to be the first to develop everlasting technology.
Altos Labs
Altos Labs is a startup in Silicon Valley, United States, with the main mission of extending human life, maybe even living forever. The initiator is Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. One of the world's richest people, Jeff Bezos, is reportedly involved in investing.
Quoted by us from CBS, in essence this startup is working on technology to rejuvenate human cells and extend human life in general.
Their breakthrough is called a reprogramming technology that has the potential to revitalize any cell. This technology may be able to improve blurred vision, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries and other problems caused by aging.
Unity Biotechnology
Not only investing in Altos Labs, previously Jeff Bezos also invested in Unity Biotechnology. This company is developing a drug to resist aging.
Interestingly, in his farewell letter when he officially resigned from the company he founded, Amazon, Bezos quoted a sentence said by an evolutionary biologist from England, Richard Dawkins.
"Stopping death is something you should work on. If living things don't actively work to prevent it, they will eventually merge with their surroundings and cease to exist as autonomous things. This is what happens when they die," Bezos said at the time.
Indeed, the context is more so that Amazon as an online store giant can live a long time, not sink with the times. But according to Bezos, it is relevant for many things including individuals. Maybe also as a signal that he wants to live long.
KrioRus
A company from Russia named KrioRus offers the ability to live forever with Cryogenic technology. What's that?
Cryogenic offers body freezing services for £ 28,000 (around Rp. 498 million). Media Express from England once wrote that cryogenics is the study of preservation by freezing it using liquid nitrogen. Especially for the preservation of the human body, this is done so that the human body can be revived in the future.
KrioRus CEO, Valeriya Udalova, said there is a possibility that technology to revive people who died could be created, although there are currently no guarantees.
Calico
Calico is a Google project that was founded in 2013. That said, one of the reasons for the formation of Calico was to make the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, live longer.
When announcing this project, Page said that Calico is not only a project that has commercial goals like other projects, but has a vision for the future in the world of health.
The closest goal that Calico wants to achieve is to find medical technology to treat cancer. But for the long term, the focus of this project is said to be working on the anti-aging or anti-aging technology sector.
Neuralink
The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has the ambition to make his mind and brain immortal through his efforts at the Neuralink company he founded.
This company has succeeded in implanting computer chips into monkey brains. The animal is said to be able to play video games like humans. This success paved the way for Musk's ambition to implant computer chips in humans.
"Neuralink is working very hard to implant safely and is in communication with the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration). If all goes well, we may be able to do human trials," Musk said in 2021.
This technology is intended to increase the speed of information flow from the human brain to the machine and cure a number of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Musk also mentioned that artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) will get smarter in the future. Together with the technology owned by Neuralink, according to him, humans also participate in this development.