Death, Sex & Money Kara Swisher on the Rich Guys Trying to Live Forever
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May 5, 2026 
Kara Swisher, veteran tech journalist and podcaster known for tough Silicon Valley coverage, digs into the billionaire drive to defy aging. She traces longevity fads, critiques unequal access to experimental treatments, and wrestles with AI avatars, family mortality, and what truly sustains health. Short, sharp stories and sharp skepticism.
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Jobs Death Sparked A Wealthy Longevity Industry
- Swisher traces the post-Steve Jobs surge in anti-aging investments to Jobs' death and close ties among tech billionaires.
- She links wealthy founders' appetite for 'hacks' to a culture that believes everything — including the body — can be engineered.
Fund Scalable Medical Research Not Just Personal Hacks
- Try funding or supporting proven biomedical research (mRNA, GLP-1, CRISPR) rather than individualized lifestyle theater.
- Kara challenges wealthy experimenters to bankroll gold-standard trials that benefit society.
AI Is Being Wasted On Marketing While Public Health Suffers
- Swisher highlights hypocrisy where tech uses AI for marketing while standing with political forces that cut public-health funding.
- She warns that platform incentives and politics divert tools from life-saving uses like cancer drug discovery.