The Immortalists

Eye-opening, entertaining and disturbing … [A] highly readable and meticulously researched book … Krotoski’s goal is to open people’s eyes to what is going on so they can make up their own minds. She does it brilliantly – Graham Lawton * New Scientist *A fascinating, deeply reported adventure among the increasingly influential figures who believe they can defeat death – and a warning not to let dreams of tech-enabled immortality stop us building a more vibrant human world here and now – Oliver BurkemanAn elegant, gripping expedition into the technological apotheosis of an ancient dream. Can technology gift us immortality? In Krotoski’s hands, this question is neither a promise nor a warning, but a meditation on what truly matters – Tom ChatfieldBrilliant, painstakingly researched and altogether a wonderful read, Aleks Krotoski serves up an essential parable for our digital times – Kevin FongAleks Krotoski, an award-winning broadcaster, academic, and technology reporter, has cast her eye over living for ever … Krotoski’s riveting book ends with a poignant account of the deaths of her father and stepmother. While the immortalists resist death, it will come to us all. The only thing we can try to control is how we face it – Roger Alton * Daily Mail *Fascinating … The new titans of tech wish to be as immortal as the Titans of legend. The award-wining journalist Aleks Krotoski wryly documents their antics in her new book The Immortalists … An entertaining and insightful account of those who believe the end of ageing is within our grasp – Stephen Cave * Financial Times *Life extensionists like Bryan Johnson want to live forever. But at what cost? … Aleks Krotoski, a psychologist and veteran chronicler of the tech industry, is well positioned to investigate and explain the phenomenon … as well as its social consequences – James Ball * Guardian *Aleks Krotoski’s fascinating new book penetrates deep into the heart of the Silicon Valley … it rises above the wellness rituals themselves and looks squarely at the metaphysics that animates them: the conviction that the human is decomposable into variables that computation and chemistry can optimise. The author’s reporting around that conviction – its origins in grief and fear, its transmutation into a public liturgy of confidence – is utterly compelling – Justin Smith-Ruiu * New Statesman *

Dr. Aleks Krotoski is an award-winning international broadcaster, author, and academic. She has topped the ratings for the BBC and Channel 4, winning Emmy, BAFTA, Radio Academy, and Royal Society awards, and has written and presented landmark technology and social science series for both radio (with BBC Radio 4’s The Artificial Human and The Digital Human) and international television (with BBC World’s The Virtual Revolution). Krotoski has held fellowships at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and received an honorary doctorate from the Open University. She currently teaches at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.