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How to enhance humans

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How to enhance humans

Finding ways to live much longer—and better—shouldn’t be left to the cranks

The Vitruvian Man wearing a brain-computer interface and holding syringes

image: Twisha Patni

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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