Paypal Co-Founder Peter Thiel on Mission to Cheat Death Through Technology
Co-founder of Paypal and successful Silicon Valley capitalist Peter Thiel, is on a mission to cheat death through technology.
In a conversation with Mick Brown from The Telegraph, Thiel says: "Basically, I'm against it. I think there are probably three main modes of approaching it. You can accept it, you can deny it or you can fight it. I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it."
"It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death. In some ways it's a microcosm of the whole complacency of the Western world. I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their...