>>13611074I think his role as a PR guy was much more important over the last ten to fifteen years than it is now.
Big names with a lot of cash are realizing that this is a serious field with big potential, and the real venture capital is beginning to flow.
De Gray helped to spur the public interest in longevity, but whether or not redditors stay excited for life extension is somewhat of a moot point now.
The tech will advance and move in whatever direction it's destined to, with or without public interest.
It's different from almost all other tech in that regard, except for perhaps BCIs, in that the people funding it have the primary goal of using it themselves, with profiting simply being a convenient bonus.
