Immortality, Inc.: Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever by Chip WalterMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
First off, I really disliked the writing style and tone of this book. It felt hokey and the analogies were of putting, sometimes didn't make sense. I had hoped there would be more science covered, but instead it was more a biography of the people who decided to try to hack death.
There is a lot of space devoted to how the companies were formed, the meetings and all sorts of boring details. Maybe it's interesting for some people, but I really didn't get much out of this book. Plus, whatever science was in here is now dated. Likely current state of some of these companies too. Science and tech start-ups move fast!
It was hard to keep straight the multitude of companies and connections and the little graph in the beginning of how these key people are connected didn't include all the company names. So that wasn't helpful.
There are better books out there, even on this topic, skip this one.
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