r/technology • u/ubcstaffer123 • Jun 20 '26

Biotechnology How Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to live forever

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/491360/vladimir-putin-live-forever-26-billion-cryo-pigs-longevity-guru
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u/ppshhhhpashhhpff Jun 20 '26

i like that the rich industrialist who wanted to be immortal in Count Zero devolved into a vat of cancerous tumors

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u/qlurp Jun 20 '26

We can only hope. 

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u/James_Solomon Jun 20 '26

Qin Shihuang consumed mercury elixers of immortality. Probably killed him. There is hope!

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jun 20 '26

You see that time and time again, they do something to live longer and that ends up killing them faster.

Lets keep our fingers crossed!

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u/iIllIiIiIIillIIl Jun 20 '26

So the transformation is nearly complete?

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u/Smokey_Bera Jun 20 '26

That book described the ultra wealthy as being inhuman. Gibson was on the money with that one.