Juan Enriquez On Immortality

 Immortality

In an enging TEDTalk, Juan Enriquez links the diverse topics of entertainment, ancient philosophy to the emerging technologies that may bring about diverse forms of human immortality.

Juan Enriquez, Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, is a bestselling author of As the Future Catches You(an Amazon best book of year; The Untied States of America (Miami Herald's book of the decade), Homo evolutis: a Tour of the Next Human Species(with Steve Gullans and TED).

Rem Koolhaas chose his Map of Global Nucleotide Data Flow (done with West and Martinez) as an iconic example of 21st century design.

Enriquez has helped found or guide more than a dozen tech start-ups including Synthetic Genomics, ZipCar, Xcellerex, Activate Networks. He sailed around the world with Dr. J. Craig Venter on a sampling expedition that increased the number of known genes by 10X. He negotiated a peace treaty with the Zapatista rebels in Mexico and was the Founding Director of the Harvard Life Sciences Project.

In the TEDTalk embedded below on Broadway, Enriquez links the diverse topics of entertainment, ancient philosophy to the emerging technologies that may bring about diverse forms of human immortality.




SOURCE  TEDTalks

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