{"id":136558,"date":"2014-08-13T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136558"},"modified":"2014-08-13T19:32:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:32:32","slug":"calico-discussed-google-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/calico-discussed-google-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Calico Discussed at The Google Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>James Hall<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">When the billionaire tech jet set decides to let down their hair, what do they talk about around the campfire? According to the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/04\/google-hosts-an-elite-conference-in-sicily\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">New Your Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">, &#8220;Google is sponsoring an elite conference this week at a golf resort in Sicily, with a guest list of chief executives, investors and celebrities, all of whom were invited to bring their families. On the agenda are high-minded discussions of global issues \u2013 along with relaxation by the Mediterranean Sea.&#8221; How quaint! . . . For the real scoop,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-exclusive-conference-the-camp-2014-8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s What Went On At Google&#8217;s Exclusive Conference For The Rich And Famous In Sicily<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000000;\"><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosalio.it\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Sicilian blogger Tony Siino<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0talked to an attendee about what went on, and told Business Insider via email that the conference, dubbed &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecamp2014.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The Camp<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">,&#8221; was three-days of intellectual discussions, relaxation, and sight-seeing.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to Siino&#8217;s source, morning discussions included a wide range of topics, including\u00a0<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how to extend human life<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the design of cities of the future.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Reported by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/tech\/Camp-Google-Rich-and-Famous-Gather-For-Elite-Conference-270023651.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">NBC local TV channel<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0in the Bay Area has &#8220;guests include Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein, executives from German and Spanish banks, Uber chief Travis Kalanick, Tesla boss Elon Musk, Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel. Also on hand is Ben Horowitz, venture capitalist with Marc Andreessen at make-or-break Silicon Valley fund Andreessen Horowitz.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Spending quality time with the family between sessions in the next round of tech discoveries hardly seems to be the best use of time. Yet, time may well be the ultimate objective if you can uncover the mysteries of anti-aging research. Life Extension Magazine reports that\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/news\/google-life-extension\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Google Life Extension<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0is investing in a venture called California Life Company, or\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/10\/24\/google-calico\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Calico<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0for short, and its goal is to extend human life by 20 to 100 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">At this point, Google is being highly secretive about their plans for Calico. All Google would reveal is that Calico will focus &#8220;in particular on the challenge of aging and associated diseases.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Calico could produce startlingly counterintuitive breakthroughs, as a result, of Google\u2019s strengths in the following areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Non-commercial dedication \u2013 rather than a focus on commercial marketing of mediocre drugs as pharmaceutical companies now do.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Vast consumer access and core data-handling skills \u2013 with unprecedented data gathering, pattern-matching, and causal-relationship detection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Ability to attract the brightest minds \u2013 potentially preferring to work on life-and-death problems instead of cutesy apps and games.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Further speculation in an essay &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wallstcheatsheet.com\/technology\/hows-google-dabbling-in-health-life-dna-and-immortality.html\/?a=viewall\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">How&#8217;s Google Dabbling in Health, Life, DNA, and Immortality?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u2014 cites areas of research has cutting-edge technology pushing the limits of the wheel of life itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000000;\"><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;A CNN article listed\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/03\/tech\/innovation\/google-calico-aging-death\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">a few common supects<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">, like cryonics (a process where the body is preserved in liquid nitrogen), cryotherapy (which exposes injured patients to very low temperatures for short periods of time), cloning and body part replacement, nanotechnology (deploying small robots to overcome the problem of incorrect DNA replication, one cause of aging), and even research into telomeres, the ends of a chromosome that protect cells against degradation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Hidden within a &#8220;feel good&#8221; sentiment behind the altruism to elevate the life span of the human race is an unconvincing skepticism. In an article like\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/10\/24\/google-calico\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Google Wants You to Live 170 Years<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">, just does not seem believable to a rational observer.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000000;\"><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;What Google brings to the table is data. &#8220;Not just one set of data, multiple forms,&#8221; says\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientiaadv.com\/leader_glorikian.php\/t_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Harry Glorikian<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">, founder of life sciences consulting firm Scientia Advisors. &#8220;Search data, GPS data, all sorts of other pieces, electronic breadcrumbs that you produce all out there to get a picture of you.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">This data could be paired with each person&#8217;s genome \u2013 a partial genome can be mapped today for $99 via\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.23andme.com\/\/t_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">23andMe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0(another Google investment), but many are hoping a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/25\/technology\/enterprise\/low-cost-genome-sequencing\/\/t_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">full genome will cost as much<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0in the next few years.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Even if such ambitious projections that life extension might become common-place for the masses, it does not guarantee that everyone will be a candidate for future &#8220;Camp&#8221; invitations. Google hardly needs to market the secrets of the gods in order to maintain or enhance their cash flow. The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/technology\/business-technology\/googles-secretive-camp-conference-draws-global-leaders\/article19911828\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Globe and Mail<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0describes the gathering, &#8220;Like the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland \u2014 an annual gathering of the elite at a snowy ski resort \u2014 the upstart conference from Google projects an aura of exclusivity. Its existence has not previously been disclosed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Following the example of other enigmatic elitist stratagems, &#8220;The Camp&#8221; shows no signs of a charitable motivation when the onion is peeled. Michael Downey in the account,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lef.org\/magazine\/mag2014\/apr2014_Google-Wants-To-Extend-Your-Life_01.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Google Wants To Extend Your Life<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0laments that not enough is being done to achieve the holy grail of Ponce de Leon&#8217;s Fountain of Youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000000;\"><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;Tragically, while the government spends over $3 billion annually on &#8220;health concerns&#8221; of the elderly, it operates on the assumption that aging is not a disease. Corporations lack the longer-term view needed. And extremely few of the world\u2019s 1,426 billionaires, with a total net worth of $5.4 trillion, have included anti-aging research in their charities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Do you really believe that the beautiful people, much less, the corporatist return on assets crowd, or the great democracies of the planet are eager to share any medical, genetic or nanotech leap forwards with the chattel serfs? Attending boot camp for the peasants is quite different from rubbing elbows with these Nouveau riche Sicilian Dons in the global technocratic mafia. The blueblood patricians of the banksters\u2019 families will enlighten their newly made men into the rules and ways of the global syndicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The Calico family franchise promises to be more alluring than the temporary ecstasy of a drug high. Most godless souls want to live forever, since rejecting an afterlife is automatic to such atheistic masters of the universe. Google has proven to be a &#8220;New Age&#8221; android. Hence, it is natural for apps, developed to manage the life cycle, become part of the smart set. The key question is will the source code become available to the masses, or will the elites maintain the restricted knowledge only for their devil witch coven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>James Hall runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batr.org\/corporatocracy\/081314.html\" target=\"_blank\">Batr website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hall RINF Alternative News When the billionaire tech jet set decides to let down their hair, what do they talk about around the campfire? 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