21-05-2025
The man who is going to live to 180 (or die trying)
How is Dave Asprey going to celebrate his 180th birthday? He's 52, so the big occasion is still a way off. Not until 2153, in fact, but he's already thinking about the guest list.
'Young people and old people together,' he says. 'One of the great things we've lost in modern societies is the concept of elders. Elders who sit in a circle telling members of the younger generation, 'I remember when we tried that before, please let's not.' I want something like that.'
Asprey is the self-styled father of the 'biohacking' movement. A former tech entrepreneur (he claims to be the first person to sell anything on the internet — a T-shirt bearing the legend 'Caffeine is my drug of choice' in 1994), Asprey
