Silicon Valley Vs. Death

Would you like your brain to be frozen, preserved and transferred to a body later, or would you rather that your memory be downloaded and stored for a distant future when it could be uploaded again into a younger brain? These are the types of questions modern-day trans-humanists are tackling on the west coast of America.  

Silicon Valley has generated immense amounts of wealth by basically selling ads (or preventing ads for subscribers) for the past two decades. But as those fresh young billionaires are ageing into fifth or sixth decades, the idea of death is ever more frightening for them. BBC Radio 4’s Analysis looks into the new techno-utopian obsession of eternity in an audio documentary produced and presented by Chloe Hadjimatheou.