????谷歌風險投資公司總裁兼執行合伙人比爾?瑪瑞斯深信，人類的壽命即將大幅延長。最近他對彭博社表示：“如果你今天問我人是否能活到500歲？我會給你一個肯定的答案。”

????有報道稱，這位40歲的風投家在2015年的投資預算為4.25億美元，他想將其中大部分投到醫療保健公司。他對彭博社說：“生命科學領域如今確實掌握了可靠的工具，能夠實現你敢于想象的任何事情。我只是希望能活得足夠長壽。”

????谷歌風投在過去投資了不少大名鼎鼎的項目，其中就有埃隆?馬斯克的Space X公司。

????瑪瑞斯認為醫療保健的未來不可限量，在采訪中他特意做了如下闡釋：二十年前還沒掌握基因技術時，我們只能用毒藥來治療癌癥。現在卻發生了翻天覆地的變化，“我們可以對干細胞進行逆向工程，用這種方式來治療癌癥。”你現在有充分的理由去投資一家致力于治愈癌癥的企業。

????20年后回頭看，今天的化療會顯得太原始，簡直就像當年拍電報一樣。

????除了谷歌風投所開展的項目外，這家搜索巨頭還一直忙于眾多其他項目。該公司要搭建一個龐大的手機信號塔和無線熱點網絡，以提升全球無線互聯的水平。該網絡將于3月底正式推出。不過這個網絡耍了個花招：只有谷歌的Nexus 6安卓智能機才能與它兼容。（財富中文網）

????譯者：清遠

????審校：任文科

????Google Venture’s president and managing partner, Bill Maris, believes human life spans are about to take a major leap. “If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes,” he told Bloombergrecently.

????The 40-year-old reportedly has $425 million to invest in 2015, and he wants the bulk of that to go to healthcare companies. “We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision,” he told Bloomberg. “I just hope to live long enough not to die.”

????Google Ventures has funded a few well-known projects in the past, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX program.

????Maris is ambitious about the future of healthcare and makes that clear in the interview:Twenty years ago, without genomics, you could only treat cancer with a poison. That’s really different from, ‘We can cure your cancer by reverse-engineering a stem cell.’ You can now legitimately invest in a company that could cure cancer.

????In 20 years, chemo will seem so primitive it will be like using a telegraph.

????Besides what’s going on at Google Ventures, the search giant has been busy on a number of other projects. The company is set to launch an ambitious network of cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots to boost wireless connectivity. It’s set to be unveiled at the end of March. The catch: Only Google’s Nexius 6 Android smartphone will be compatible with the new service.