Fear of Death Is Alive in Austin

For someone with aspirations to live to 180, Dave Asprey’s time is carefully budgeted. At his three-day biohacking conference, held in Austin in May, Asprey’s PR team granted me eight minutes to interview him, so I knew I had to make them count. Face-to-face with the so-called “father of biohacking,” who wore his patented yellow glasses that filter out blue light (available to purchase for $149.99) and whose unyielding hairline belied his 51 years, I posed the question I’d been wanting to ask since I became familiar with his work: “Why would you want to live that long?” “Most people, when they hear 180—right away, they’re thinking wheelchairs, diapers, hospitals, drooling,” he said. “If you could look and feel as good as you do now and…

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