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Tara Isabella Burton on Bryan Johnson's tech magic.

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Tara Isabella Burton
Apr 03, 2025
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Millionaire tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson recently announced that he had founded a new religion. This religion would involve using the latest technology to “hack” our biology and allow human beings to live forever. This sounds like cutting edge stuff. It’s not, says Țara Isabella Burton …

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Tara Isabella Burton
Author of SELF-MADE, STRANGE RITES and the novels SOCIAL CREATURE, THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE, and HERE IN AVALON; writes on God, art, beauty, language, and imagination; in-progress: THE GREAT WORK, an intellectual history of magic and modernity
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