Many rich billionaires are investing large sums of money to research anti-aging and longevity technology, but Elon Musk is not very interested in this technology. The reason why?
Over the past decade, many rich billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos or Peter Thiel ... have poured money into research projects on technology to prolong life and fight aging, in the hope that they can be applied. these technologies up themselves.
With a huge fortune and a lot of power in their hands, billionaires want to prolong their lives is completely understandable.
However, the current richest billionaire in the world, Elon Musk, is not very interested and indifferent to this technology. In a recent interview with Insider, Elon Musk explained why he doesn't want to invest in anti-aging and longevity technology.
"I don't think we should try to find a way to help people live really long," Musk said. "This is going to be stifling to society, because the truth is that most people don't change their minds. They just die. So if we don't die, we'll be stuck with these things. old ideas and society cannot move forward".
Elon Musk is indifferent to technology that prolongs life and views death as a relief (Image: Getty).
Elon Musk is indifferent to technology that prolongs life and views death as a relief (Image: Getty).
This is considered a quite opposite view of most technology billionaires in the US. However, despite the fact that billionaires are investing a large amount of money, so far no anti-aging and longevity technology has really been successful and applied in practice.
Before that, in September 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce company Amazon, invested an undisclosed amount in Altols Labs, a startup researching anti-aging technology. . This San Francisco-based biotech company focuses on technology that helps "program cells to rejuvenate", a method that could theoretically reverse the aging process, shortening the time to cure. illness, injury…
In addition to Jeff Bezos, technology billionaire Peter Thiel is also considered an active person in investing in research on anti-aging technology.
Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel have jointly invested in Unity Biotechnology, another San Francisco-based biotech company specializing in "aging cells," with the idea of developing drugs modified to slow down , prevent aging process and fight diseases caused by old age.
Thiel has also invested in a startup called Ambrosia, which is currently working on anti-aging blood cells.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, through their philanthropic foundation, have offered an annual $3 million prize to scientists who make groundbreaking advances that last a lifetime. human lifespan.
In an interview in 2015, Mark Zuckerberg expressed interest in the idea of being able to prolong life forever.
"I'm very interested in questions about people. What can help us live forever? How to cure all diseases? How does the brain work? How to increase strength to help Humans can learn a million times more?", Mark Zuckerberg shared in an interview in 2015.