Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this
year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He's looking for
companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.
Maris' interview:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/google-ventures-bill-maris-investing-in-idea-of-living-to-500
- Google Ventures' Bill Maris said he thinks humans can live to 500 years old
- This will be due to medical breakthroughs and a rise in biomechanics
- Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil previously said we'd be uploading our brains to machines by 2045
- Google Ventures has invested in genetics firms and cancer startups
- Tech giant also set up Calico - anti-ageing research and development labs
- Mr Maris said: 'We have the tools to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die'
- But professor Sir Colin Blakemore believes there's a limit on human life
- Neurobiologist believes 120 years ‘might be an absolute to human lifespan’
- This is because living for longer is ‘so rarely exceeded’ that even with medical advances, it is unlikely this threshold will be raised
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