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Playing God
In part five of the Immortality: A User's Guide series—thinking through the societal consequences of radical life extension.
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Return Of The “Progress City”
A group of tech titans are buying up farmland in California with the aim of building a new urban community from scratch. What can they learn from the…
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Introducing The Infernal Machine
A new book about dynamite, anarchism, and the birth of the surveillance state.
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Project Tailwind
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"Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online
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The Thinking Path
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Birth Of A Science
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The Man Who Broke The World
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The Backlash
In part four of the Immortality series: is there something fundamentally irresponsible about the pursuit of radical life extension?
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The Future Of Illusion
Two centuries ago, a wave of immersive simulations swept across the cities of Europe. Are we on the brink of another period of similar experimentation…
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Biological Age
In Part Three of Immortality: A User's Guide: why do we age in the first place? And was Steve Jobs correct that death is "life's change agent"?
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Birth Of A Science
In the next installment of Immortality: A User's Guide—a paradigm shift in our understanding of why we age.
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Project Tailwind
An early look at a new experimental “tool for thought” that I’ve been developing with Google.
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The Calment Boundary
In the introduction to my new series, Immortality: A User's Guide—the story of a French real estate transaction that went awry, and what it suggests…
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Immortality, A User's Guide
Introducing a new extended series on the latest developments in—and potential social consequences of—radical life extension.
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