Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death

0:01Can technology help humans defy death? Longevity, fighting aging is my passion and mission, and I'm working on that for decades to come, hopefully centuries to come. Tech companies and investors are spending billions on ways to extend human lifespan through novel treatments, therapies, and manipulating our genes. At some point in the future, you will go to bed, you will take a pill just before you go to sleep. As you're sleeping, this medicine is bringing back the age of cells by weeks overnight. I'm Hannah Gushler. And I'm Michael Peel. And in a new series of Tectonic, we're asking if breakthroughs in science and technology can really help us live longer and even stop us aging altogether.

0:47Where has this obsession with longevity come from? People who are very wealthy, you see your power and your money getting greater and greater and you realize that what's going to end it all is your death. Are tech companies really to be trusted with the solutions? It is kind of a Wild West with lots of bad guys running around trying to take advantage of the kind of universal human interest in living longer. And how many of us actually want to live forever? Listen to the latest series of Tectonic from the Financial Times, dropping Wednesday, November 26th.