Eternal life – but only for the rich (Picture Getty)

Think there’s a big gap between rich and poor today?

Think again.

Within 200 years, wealthy people are likely to be ‘God-like’ immortal cyborgs with robotic implants – while the rest of us grow old and die around them.

The ultra-rich will turn into man-machine hybrids using expensive ‘upgrades’ which merge computer technology with living flesh, according to Professor Yuval Noah Harari of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


Professor Harari, speaking at the Hay literary festival, said, ‘I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering of by the creation of cyborgs, part organic part non-organic.

A rich person with a computer brain box (picture Getty)

‘It will be the greatest evolution in biology since the appearance of life. Nothing really has changed in four billion years biologically speaking.



‘But we will be as different from today’s humans as chimps are now from us.’

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