![]() ![]() Jeff sees this as the latest in a series of fatherly abdications: Their relationship is overshadowed by Ross’s abandonment, decades previously, of him and his mother. ![]() The reason for that bitter argument is this: Ross, unable to face the loss of Artis, has decided to cut to the chase and have himself prematurely suspended-a premium immortality service the Convergence offers its preferred clients. “The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement,” as Jeff reflects after a bitter argument with Ross. For all its sci-fi strangeness, the group reflects the ideas of actual Silicon Valley immortalists like Peter Thiel and Ray Kurzweil, soothsayer of the Technological Singularity: It offers a vision of eternal life to its wealthy benefactors, a chance of outmaneuvering mortality through applied science and applied capitalism. The Kyrgyzstani compound-located, as the skeptical Jeff puts it, “at the far margins of plausibility”-is the desert outpost of a futurist quasi-cult called the Convergence. ![]()
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