Who Doesn't Want to Live Forever? The Cult of Singularity
While the Fountain of Youth is generally ascribed to the conquistador Juan Ponce de León — located in Florida, perhaps, or the Bahamas, or the Yucatan — the legend itself is far older. The seeking of eternal youth is as old as literature itself: Herodotus wrote of it; Gilgamesh nearly had it until his fateful nap.Truth is, searching for the ability to live forever is probably much older than our texts reveal.

April 20, 2015 at 03:33AM
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