在乔恩·朗森和蒂姆·吴的传统中，这是一段关于美国反抗死亡方式的引人入胜的启示之旅。
随着长寿医学彻底改变了许多老年人的生活，寻求下一步按照我们的选择长寿的努力，引发了一场寻求长生不老药的科学军备竞赛，该竞赛由大型科技公司和硅谷资助。
曾经是美索不达米亚神话和《星际迷航》情节的素材，随着技术进步的步伐加快，让人类不朽的努力变得越来越可信。它还赋予了伪科学家、技术幻想家、骗局艺术家和宗教狂热者的狂野边缘力量，这些人为了追求不朽而献出了自己的生命。
彼得·沃德（Peter Ward）从佛罗里达州的永久生命教会（Church of Performant Life）开始，探索冷冻行业中相互争斗的亚文化，他将自己沉浸在一个由初创公司、诈骗艺术家、科学机构和科技亿万富翁组成的古怪世界中，来传达这篇深度报道、细致入微的演讲，有时，对不朽种族的探索非常有趣——如果人类实现其终极梦想，可能会带来毁灭性的后果。
The Price of Immortality
In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of Defying Death . . .
As longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older people, the quest to take the next step—to live as long as we choose—has spurred a scientific arms race in search of the elixir of life, funded by Big Tech and Silicon Valley.
Once the stuff of Mesopotamian mythology and episodes of Star Trek, the effort to make humans immortal is becoming increasingly credible as the pace of technological progress quickens. It has also empowered a wild-eyed fringe of pseudo-scientists, tech visionaries, scam-artists, and religious fanatics who have given their lives over to the pursuit of immortality.
Starting off at the Church of Perpetual Life in Florida and exploring the feuding subcultures around the cryonics industry, Peter Ward immerses himself into an eccentric world of startups, scam artists, scientific institutions, and tech billionaires to deliver this deeply reported, nuanced, and sometimes very funny exploration of the race for immortality — and the potentially devastating consequences should humanity realize its ultimate dream.
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