Media
INTERVIEWS:
Max More Interview 2020
Max More Interview 2019
Max More Interview 2013
Max More Interview 2012
Max More Interview 2011
TV, RADIO, MAGAZINE APPEARANCES:
Max More
Including selected appearances done for Alcor. See Media Coverage under Alcor for full list.
2021
Interview by Russian RT (Russia Today TV). Interviewer: Sophie Shevardnadze. She is the granddaughter of Eduard Shevardnadze, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party, the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Video here:
https://www.rt.com/news/516049-sophieco-cryopreservation-alcor/
https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco-visionaries/515909-max-moore-philosopher-futurist-rt-interview/
NBC’s Peacock, 10am-1pm. https://bit.ly/36eBxQF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsmS-3Mu7II&feature=emb_logo
2020
Blood, Sweat, and Coffee
Should I FREEZE MYSELF when I die? | S2E9 with Katee Sackhoff
Filmed: February 7, 2020. Released: July 19, 2020.
YouTube filming with Katie Sackhoff and Robin Gadsby. With podcast interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6ffxAiZ28&list=PLiHvVvKZ9lt4S67irOO8z-uaL_QuTRp8C&index=5
Inside a Cryonics facility: Where people go to cheat death
Jul 9, 2020
Host: Claire Reilly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6qT2GN0Ao&feature=youtu.be
Dying to be Frozen
Directed by Jake McCurdy
https://www.facebook.com/dyingtobefrozen/
Imagine Beyond
Documentary funded by Kaspersky. Filmed December 2020.
Hope Frozen
Documentary, 2020
2019
Cryonics facility in Scottsdale aims to allow people to live forever, once technology allows for it
By Danielle Miller, FOX 10, Friday, April 26, 2019
What really happens if you choose to ‘freeze yourself’ when you die
Rachael Martin
March 26, 2019
How to get cryonically frozen and await reanimation in 12 easy steps
By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
Quartz, March 26, 2019
https://qz.com/1575712/how-to-get-cryonically-frozen-in-12-foolproof-steps/
Travel Channel
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
2018
The Bitcoiners Who Want to Defeat Death
By Julia Herbst
Breakemag, 12.19.2018
https://breakermag.com/the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death/
In Search Of
Life After Death
The History Channel
Hosted by Zaachary Quinto
Sep 07, 2018 | 40m 3s | TV-14 | CC
https://www.history.com/shows/in-search-of/season-1/episode-8Zach tackles the ultimate existential question as he explores what happens when we die and whether or not we can have life after death. He meets with a Texas man who actually died and came back to life after a horrific kayaking accident. Zach continues his search by attempting to speak with spirits from beyond the grave with the help of a father and paranormal investigator who claims to have audio and video communication with his deceased daughter. Zach also looks at the strange world of cryogenics at the infamous Alcor laboratories in Arizona, and he uncovers a breakthrough anti-aging pill that is being developed inside the labs at Harvard University.
The Misguided Idiot’s Quest for Immortality: A diatribe on the folly and privilege of the Transhumanist movement, Alex Pearlman
Medium, Jul 5, 2018
https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/the-misguided-idiots-quest-for-immortality-bb4c9e74457e
2017
Bella family to a cryonics facility
Grain Media – UK/Asia Markets int. with Max and Linda.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
BBC/Swan films – interview with Max.
Thursday September 27, 2018
Newspaper LeTemps tour with Max and interview.
Friday September 28, 2018
Scottsdale lab freezes bodies in hopes of bringing you back from the dead
Jason Volentine
10:57 PM, Sep 25, 2017
11:00 PM, Sep 25, 2017
ABC15 News piece on Facebook.
Filmed on Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Tuesday August 29, 2017: 09:30: Ronald Silva – Columbian journalist – Max interview.
Wednesday July 12, 2017: 14:45 pm: Pailin film crew – Thailand Max interview.
EBS – Special Documentary “Beyond” – South Korean public television
May 5, 2017
Vice Media – “Time Unlimited” – tour and interview with Max
April 3, 2017
Pollyanna Woodward – Life After Death – documentary – interview and tour with Max
3/27/17
Swedish TV – Elk International – “Meltzer and the Death”
March 15, 2017
Belgium Netherlands – “Last Days” – interview and tour with Max
Belgium, “Last Days” documentary. March 15, 2017 filming. Television production company, deMENSEN (http://www.demensen.be/en) based in Brussels.
60 Second Doc, February 7, 2017
Dr. Freeze
2016
Frozen in time: Fox 8 goes inside the world’s leading cryopreservation facility
Tuesday October 11, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm: Fox News Cleveland. Susan Stratford.
POSTED 10:46 PM, NOVEMBER 16, 2016, BY SUZANNE STRATFORD
Even If Human Lifespan Skyrockets, We May Not Need Mars
Joe Carmichael
Inverse, October 11, 2016
https://www.inverse.com/article/22069-life-extension-immortality
Why There’s Still Room for Spirituality in Transhumanism
Max More says transhumanists can keep all the benefits of religion, do away with some of its drawbacks, and leave out the supernatural.
Joe Carmichael
Inverse, October 12, 2016
https://www.inverse.com/article/22102-spirituality-transhumanism
Monday September 26, 2016
Maja Persson.
Swedish Icon.
Generation Cryo: Fighting Death in the Frozen Unknown
By George Dvorsky
Gizmodo, September 22, 2016
http://gizmodo.com/generation-cryo-fighting-death-in-the-frozen-unknown-1786446378
I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again
Max More cryogenically preserves people’s bodies and heads in the hope that one day they can be brought back to life. It doesn’t make him popular
By Helen Thomson
New Scientist (UK), June 29, 2016
Univision
Broadcast July 11-13, 2016
Showing in three segments plus a written article.
Frozen Faith: Cryonics and The Quest to Cheat Death
Motherboard, May 5, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5KuNAeOtJ0
http://digg.com/video/cryonics-science-video[23:13]
Broadcast September 1, 2016
Transhumanism: Would You Agree to an Upgrade of Your Brain and Body?
Eugene Gan
Aleteia, April 22, 2015
–seems to be stimulated by my essay on Catholicism and life extension, although the author obvious didn’t read it well.
Meet the company offering a chance at immortality for $200,000
More and more people are signing up to be frozen for a chance at life after death. So the question is, would you?
Zack Guzman | @ZGuz
CNBC, April 26, 2016
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/26/meet-the-company-offering-a-chance-at-immortality-for-200000.html
Keep me on ice for later: The chilling tale of people who want to come back from the dead
Lucy Davies
The Telegraph, March 27, 2016
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/photography/what-to-see/keep-me-on-ice-for-later/
Interview by Vanity Fair, March 14, 2016
Talk Radio Europe, March 2, 2016
Scottsdale-based cryopreservation facility doubling size to meet demand
Wednesday, February 24th 2016, 10:44 am MST
Updated Thursday, February 25th 2016, 12:10 pm MST
By Lindsey Reiser
2015
Inside the weird world of cryonics
Courtney Weaver
FT Magazine, 12.18.15
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d634e198-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html
David Eagleman on the Brain, Episode 6
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365575357/
Episode 6 | Who Will we Be? (From 20:30 to 24:15)
(Filmed in October, but aired November 18, 2015)
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365603629/
[12.21.15: Now “This video is unavailable in your area”.]
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365575386/
Dying is the last thing anyone wants to do – so keep cool and carry on
The Guardian, October 10, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/11/cryonics-booms-in-us
Souls on ice: How Alcor freezes the dead
Ryan Tronier and Emi Komiya, 12 News 9:55 a.m. MST October 8, 2015
http://www.12news.com/story/news/local/valley/2015/10/07/souls-ice-how-alcor-freezes-dead/73473050/
VIDEO FRIDAY: DR. MAX MORE AT THE CHURCH OF PERPETUAL LIFE — CRYONICS & THE FUTURE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/05/29/video-friday-dr-max-more-at-the-church-of-perpetual-life-cryonics-the-future-of-emergency-medicine/
2014
December 2014: Natalia Hatalska, FutureMakers Today: http://futuremakers.today/
5 Predictions For The World In 2039
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3040173/5-predictions-for-the-world-in-2039
Shocked book…
2013
Discovery Channel, Spain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy7YbqUxcvk
2010
Article in The Independent, UK.
Chapter on me in Riccardo Camps’s Divenire Volume 4.
My work discussed in Giuseppe Vattino’s Il Transumanesimo: Una Nuova Filosofia per L’Umo del XX Secolo.
China Radio International-Future Society-Jan 13. Today on Beyond Beijing. Chris Gelken, Today on Beyond Beijing. 86 10 6889 2292 – Office. 86 136 4100 5209 – Cell Phone. About our program and archive: http://english.cri.cn/08webcast/today.htm
2004
“Done with Death?”, Sonia Arrison, Technology News World, December 10 2004.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/38861.html
- Transvision 2004, keynote address: “Hyperagency vs. Humility”.
- NeoFiles interview, May 2004
“Imagining the Future” by Yuval Levin, in The New Atlantis, Winter 2004. Yuval Levin is a senior editor of The New Atlantis and author of Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook (2000). He is also a member of the staff of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
2003
“Constructing Energy Futures 2004 to 2030.” Talk to ConocoPhillips, February 23rd 2003.
2002
- Crossfire
- Fifth Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension speech. October 16-17 2002.
- Talk to The Capital Group, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, October 9 2002.
- Nanomagazine, 07.13.02, (formerly Atomasoft), interview.
- “Elements of a New Enlightenment: Strategic Philosophy at the Edge of Human.” The Engelsberg Seminar on Consciousness, Genetics, and Society, June 14-16, 2002, Avesta, Sweden.
2001
- Speech at the GDI Consumer Health Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, May 28-29 2001.
- “The Metabrain”. Sputnik conference: manTRANSforms, New York, June 2, 2001. “Evolution has produced creatures with increasingly complex minds. Using emerging and foreseeable future technologies, we are and we will continue to accelerate the evolution of mind. This talk will cover the technological paths to posthuman cognition and emotion while considering some philosophical and social-cultural issues that arise as we alter our basic mental architecture. While posthumans will vastly exceed humans intellectually and emotionally, we should not expect a utopian future of blissful peace.”
- Talk on “Technological Imagination: Science and Creativity on the Edge of the Transhuman Era” at the The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) Conference at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, March 28, 2001.
2000
1999
- VPRO TV in the Netherlands
- “Technology’s Transformation of Human Nature” talk at 1999 American Mensa Annual Gathering, July 1-5, 1999 in Long Beach CA.
1997
- “Self as the Prime Creative Medium.” Art Futura, Madrid, Spain, October 1997.
- “Beyond the Machine: Technology and Posthuman Freedom.” Ars Electronica September 1997, Linz, Austria.
- Talk at “The Big Fatigue”, Munich Marstall, Sunday 17th March 1997. Bonn, Germany.
“The Sense of the Senses”, January 1997, Germany - “Mind Morph: Technologically Enhanced Emotion and Personality.” EXTRO 3 Conference on the Future, August 9 1997.
1996
Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung
was published in the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung yesterday. [January 21, 2002]
It is quite good. The title (translated to English) is “Enterprise
Immortality” and the subtitle “California in our heads: How the
transhumanists search for eternal life”. I am forwarding you the scanned
text from a post on the German transhumanist e-mail list.
There are some pictures of Natasha and you and (probably) of Natasha’s Primo
3M+ (according to the description in the e-mail below – I didn’t see the
article directly). A big part of the text is about improving the human body
and immortality. There is also input from a German transhumanists meeting in
Munich and some statements of Natasha. The article was even announced on the
front page of the newspaper. I think it is good to raise interest in
transhumanism.
Interview with Ed Frauenheim for Knowledge@Wharton on human-enhancing therapies.
Infinity Productions interview for Discovery Channel and “flatherism”. Monday July 1, 2002.
Le point, France, late 2001.
From: Hélène Vissière
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:16:52 -0700
Organization: Le Point
My name is Helene Vissiere. I am a French journalist based in San Francisco, working for a newsmagazine called Le Point which is like Time.
For a next issue, I am planning to write about the Extropian movement and its influence. I have read texts you or your collegues wrote and I looked at your website but I have some more questions.
I spoke to Helene for 45 minutes the next week. She said she would send me the story when it came out.
Quoted in book on Computers and the Human Senses by James Geary, to appear September 2001.
LA Weekly, “The Transhumanists”, cover story written by Brenden, published Bernhard February 16, 2001.
Live from Extro-5, by Ronald Bailey
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb062001.html
POSSIBLES ON EXTRO-5: Wired, Charles Platt, San Jose Mercury News, <>Newsweek
Today’s Los Angeles Times has an editorial sounding a cautionary note on germline engineering, and it mentions the Extropy Institute.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000061697jul29.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment
(that link may not work after today):
Americans might be surprised to know that germline engineering is supported not only by fringe think tanks like the Los Angeles-based Extropy Institute (mission statement: “Incubating Positive Futures”) but also by some top scientists. MIT economist Lester Thurow says “biotechnology is inevitably leading to a world in which plants,
animals and human beings are going to be partly man-made.” James Watson–the co-discoverer of DNA, the former head of the National Institutes of Health and a Nobel laureate–is the most blunt of all. “No one has the guts to say it,” Watson says, but “if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?”
- My Generation: Reporter: Peg Tyre. Editor: Betsy Carter. Interviewed on November 28, 2000. Fact-checked June 2001. To appear in Sept/Oct 2001 issue (online July 30).
- French Internet magazine (Transfert): To appear June 2001? (Journalist: Alexander Piquard.)
- New York food and cuisine magazine, June or July 2001. (Interviewed at manTRANSforms in New York, June 2001.)
- Information Week, May 2001, quoted in story on Larry Ellison’s biotech investments.
- Italian magazine (Class): Mentioned in story on Natasha. April-May 2001.
- Mean Magazine “Back to the Future: Are we not Transhuman?” by Dave Clifford, April 2001.
German magazine, Net Business, as part of story on Natasha. February 2001?
From E-Magazine,
http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_2001/0101feat1.html
Designer People
The Human Genetic Blueprint Has Been Drafted, Offering Both Perils and Opportunities for the Environment. The Big Question: Are We Changing the Nature of Nature?
By Sally Deneen
“Designer People”:
Chapela is also worried about the lack of civic discourse. But the advocates are talking, particularly among themselves. At a Berkeley conference, one of them, Extropy Institute President Max More, stood before the crowd and read an open letter to Mother Nature:Sorry to disturb you, but we humans–your offspring–come to you with some things to say:
You have raised us from simple self-replicating chemicals to trillion-celled mammals;What you have made us is glorious, yet deeply flawed;We will no longer tolerate the tyranny of aging and death. Through genetic alterations, cellular manipulations, synthetic organs, and any necessary means, we will endow ourselves with enduring vitality and remove our expiration date.”
Other proponents are more sober, and include Nobel laureate scientists. “This is no ‘marginal’ movement or way of thinking,” Chapela says. “The group advocating human re-engineering includes extremely powerful, influential and wealthy people. So don’t expect them to roll over easily or soon.”
According to several people, I make a cameo appearance (under a different name) in Ken MacLeod’s The Cassini Division (August 2000).
My Extro 4 talk mentioned as representing extropian thought in online magazine Feedmag.com.
September 1999: Interviewed by Gianni Carta and photographed by Theresa Hansen for GQ Spain.
Filmed (solo, in class, and with three others) for VPRO TV in the Netherlands (similar to PBS). To be shown in November 1999.
National Post, of Toronto, Ontario: interviewed for story on transhumanism.
Mentioned in book Last Flesh by Chris Dewdney, 1999.
Quote of my recommendation on back cover of SF novel Earthweb by Marc Steigler.
Boulder News, September 23 1998: Quoted several times in “Cheating Death: The Quest for Immortality” by Kristin Dizon.
Alex Heard (Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in Endtime America?), January 1999.
Techgnosis by Erik Davis. November 1999. (Paperback edition.)
.net (UK) magazine. March 1998?
Icon magazine article by Bruce David, March 1998?
Filmed for TV show on Discovery channel, September 30 1997. To be shown in spring 1998 in Europe and fall 1998 in USA.
September 1997: Telepolis aktuell vom 18.09.1997: Die Extropianer, eine elitäre Gruppe von High-Tech-Avantgardisten, trafen sich in San Jose zur jährlichen Konferenz. Ihre Themen: Die Selbst-Evolutionierung der Menschheit und die Infrastruktur der Zukunft. Gundolf S. Freyermuth hat die EXTRO 3 besucht. http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/konf/2196/1.html. EXTRO 3 report also to appear in CT (German magazine with 300,000 circulation.)
Interviewed by Markus Metz, Munich Germany, Sept 10 1997.
Interviewed for Alphaville, Milan, Italy, Sept 10 1997.
Interviewed by Dieter Kohler for Schweizer Radio DRS, Studio Basel. (Switzerland?) after talk at Ars Electronica, September 10 1997.
TNC Network based in France, interviewed me for the Clone Party at Ars Electronica.
Interviewed for Italian radio by Nico Piro, at Ars Electronica, Sept 10 1997.
Interviewed by Mario Conforti for Italian television after talk at Ars Electronica, September 10 1997.
Interviewed by Katsura Hattori for Asahi Shimbun magazine (Japan) after my talk at Ars Electronica, September 10 1997.
The Spike: Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future, by Damien Broderick, 1997.
Ideas discussed in Mark Dery, Escape Velocity. 1998? 1997?
Interview for UK Guardian article, August 15 1997 to appear following week. (Good story with good picture.)
Big Life, CBC (Canadian TV show), Friday February 28. Talked on the cloning breakthrough. (8-9 minutes airtime.)
Strange Universe, October 1996.
Muy Interesente, December 1996 (Mexican-Spanish news magazine). Includes photos from Wired, and screen shot of my own website.
Ideas covered in largest chapter in Gundolph Freyermuth’s Cyberland (published in Germany), 1996.
Interviewed for CBS Mysteries of the Millennium. Wednesday June 28 1995. Shown later in year.
L.A. Reader, “Duty Now for the Future”, by Antony Asch. June 9, 1995.
Quoted and my ideas covered in the San Francisco Metro. March 29 1995.
“The Tomorrow People” in the UK Sunday newspaper The Observer, Life magazine section. Sunday March 26 1995. Front cover of newspaper has photo of me with caption “Meet Mr. Immortal”. Big photo of me inside with comments from various Extropians, focusing mostly on me.
Wednesday February 8 1995: Interviewed by phone for show on Australian Broadcasting Corporation. (Other guest was Gary Chapman of the Univ. of Texas 21st Century Project. We discussed issues about cyberspace, such as people changing identities, political, social, and metaphysical implications.
Featured heavily in story “Meet the Extropians” by Ed Regis, Wired, October 1994.
Appeared on Breakthroughs: A Transcentury Update cable TV show, aired in Santa Monica & Telluride, Colorado (taped 2 shows with Nanc Clark, host, and Robin Hanson, Tim Freeman, Dan Spitzer, Chris Heward, and Regina Pancake) August 23 1994. First show was on life extension, the second specifically on cryonics. To be broadcast on October 3 & 10 1994.
August 21 1994: Filmed for a documentary on Synthetic Pleasures by Caipirinha Productions (dir: Iara Lee). This was shown at Film Festivals and in art movie theaters.
Quoted several times as President of Extropy Institute, in article on physical immortality in first issue of XO: Man At Large, an Asian-American magazine, August 1994 (appeared late May).
Appeared on Los Angeles radio station KIEV (870AM), hosted by David Nolan, Tuesday 9-10pm, May 10 1994. Live show with callers, discussing the impact of technological change on social change.
Interviewed in Science Fiction Eye by Charles Platt: “Taking the N Out of Entropy”, Spring 1994, #13.
“Shaping a Self in the Transhuman Era” given to the Redondo Beach Virtual Reality Group (organized by Dr. Michael Heim), on Friday March 25 1994.
Interview for Netherlands TV, VPRO. 1993.
Guest on new chat show, Electric Coffee, June 1993.
Extensively quoted in British GQ article, “Meet the Extropians”, June 1993.
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