+Larry Page recruits Art Levinson, chairman at both Genetech and Apple, to run the new Health-focused company.
Calico (short for California Life Company), will put the focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of ageing and associated diseases.
Calico (short for California Life Company), will put the focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of ageing and associated diseases.
Tapping Levinson comes with the power to build bridges between tech titans, but where Google's own in-house anti-aging crusader, +Ray Kurzweil, is in all of this?Page makes it clear that Calico is about looking at some of our biggest health concerns.
Solving cancer, you'd add about three years to people's average life expectancy, but in the aggregate, it's not as big an advance as you might think.Regarding Google Health, they keep saying the problem was ultimately a political one. Perhaps Google will be able to find the algorithm to defeat death before it solves politics.
cnet | Google launches Calico to take on illness and aging
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