What is humanity's fascination with immortality? In a fascinating featurette preparing for the premiere of Netflix's Altered Carbon, experts and influencers speak about humankind's history of chasing immortality and continued strides toward it.
In Altered Carbon, citizens of a futuristic society contain all their mind's information – their souls, depending how you look at it – in a "stack" at the base of the neck. So long as the stack is in tact, it can be stored in different bodies ("sleeves") and continue to live.
The "History of Immortality" shows human society around where we'd expect it to be, pre-Altered Carbon; We continue to ask if death is inevitable. In the video, Steve Aoki describes death as a disease that can be cured.
At the end of the video, we realize this isn't just a fun science featurette, but an advertisement for Psychasec, the technology used in Altered Carbon to keep people alive forever. But as the show asks: Is infinite life the answer? What new problems will it pose?
Altered Carbon premieres Feb. 2 on Netflix.
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