We are all Bryan Johnson now

After holding a developmental reading of a play I have been working on about a fictional transhumanist and his world, I was able to briefly correspond with Bryan Johnson. One friend passed the play on to the entrepreneur-turned-anti-aging guru; another found out that he had read it. Eventually, we connected on WhatsApp. Johnson, the most famous avatar of transhumanism, thanked me for writing something that presented the issue in a neutral way, without heroes or villains. Johnson’s bio on X, where he has 1.8 million followers, reads “conquering death will be humanity’s greatest achievement.” He is now best-known for his quest to defeat age and achieve immortality, which he has branded as Project Blueprint, and for the various tech initiatives and companies he has founded or financed to help