Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality

Awfully interesting article seen here today…

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/google-ventures-bill-maris-investing-in-idea-of-living-to-500

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…

“If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes,” Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California…

The article continues along with a deeper dive into what Google Ventures is/does and endeavours to be.   That in of itself is interesting enough to read….but the heavy focus on Life Extension technologies gives one hope that the private sector is finally focused on treating death…as a disease.


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