How to enhance humans
Finding ways to live much longer—and better—shouldn’t be left to the cranks
BRYAN JOHNSON wants to live for ever. The American businessman pops a hundred pills a day, never eats after 11am, and obsessively monitors dozens of his body’s “biomarkers”. The goal, as he will tell anyone who asks, is not merely to live a few years longer. It is to vanquish death entirely.
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Rise of the superhuman”
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