It seems that Google may one day include longer lives into its employees’ employment packages. Indeed, Silicon Valley employment packages are now getting hard to top, especially after the big companies were allowed to headhunt.Google, for example, believes that a longer life is something its employees will be happy with.
According to Todd Carlisle, director of staffing at the search giant, it could reach a point where the perks of working at an organization include extending employee’s life. He believes that if that were the case then employees would likely never leave and would remain incredibly loyal. The most interesting part is that Google is actually headed in that direction.
For example, late in 2012 Google hired Ray Kurzweil, a big fan of the singularity idea, which predicts that life extension technologies would eventually extend people’s lives indefinitely, thus enabling the humanity to start using more robotic bodies. This may start happening in earnest within this decade, but the singularity would require capabilities of the most powerful computer system in the world. And this is exactly what the search giant is building, so Google’s engineers may probably accept lower salaries for the chance to be among the first to get eternal youth. The private joke inside the company is that this approach has one drawback: in case an engineer stops working for Google they could switch him off and wipe his personality from its hard-drive. Or sell him to the NSA, in the light of the latest events.
According to Todd Carlisle, director of staffing at the search giant, it could reach a point where the perks of working at an organization include extending employee’s life. He believes that if that were the case then employees would likely never leave and would remain incredibly loyal. The most interesting part is that Google is actually headed in that direction.
For example, late in 2012 Google hired Ray Kurzweil, a big fan of the singularity idea, which predicts that life extension technologies would eventually extend people’s lives indefinitely, thus enabling the humanity to start using more robotic bodies. This may start happening in earnest within this decade, but the singularity would require capabilities of the most powerful computer system in the world. And this is exactly what the search giant is building, so Google’s engineers may probably accept lower salaries for the chance to be among the first to get eternal youth. The private joke inside the company is that this approach has one drawback: in case an engineer stops working for Google they could switch him off and wipe his personality from its hard-drive. Or sell him to the NSA, in the light of the latest events.
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