VITALIA STATE OF THE CITY 2025

Vitalia is the result of different converging technologies and narratives - we have a specific thesis or narrative violation that makes Vitalia unique and different.

For simplicity, assume longevity has two narratives: the healthy lifestyle (healthspan) narrative and the radical life extension narrative, the possibility to use science and technology to overcome the biological processes we call “aging” and the suffering that comes with it.

Vitalia is more home in the radical life extension narrative, but we support a healthy lifestyle as well. We don’t see it as our unique selling point, but living healthy is a good thing.

Where our narrative violation starts is the “how”. Existing narratives have different theories of change. Most of them assume “the science comes first” and “for the science to succeed, we need funding”. We found this narrative lacking. Our critique is taking the idea “get funding, to make progress” on its head to “make progress, to get funding.” We think all successful technological revolutions have in common that they require permissionless trial and error. They put products quickly in the hands of people, like personal computers or Uber car rides.

We think an “Apollo Program for Longevity” would fail within the current legacy constraints put up by e.g. the FDA, even with a trillion in funding. This is because new development is too costly, tinkering is priced out or prohibited, and the time to market is too long. Health Authorities have a prohibitive approach to new products. These authorities are violating the common sense principle of informed consent, and instead take a paternalistic, top-down approach.

Longevity x Liberty* is the alternative narrative. Liberty is the base layer social arrangement necessary for longevity to succeed, and for longevity to be worthwhile. Here is a thought experiment: would you rather …? 1) live forever in the torture chamber of a totalitarian dictatorship, or 2) live 50 years in freedom from coercion and oppression? Even if you decided you want to endure the pain of 1) because you think there is a chance the dictatorship will end, would you do it if you have no choice to transfer back to option 2)? A one-way street with an uncertain outcome? Choice is what makes liberty a fundamental ethical requirement.

*By liberty, we mean “freedom from” things like oppressive or coercive authorities that you didn’t opt in to. We do not mean “freedom to” do irresponsible things. Liberty is not the absence of rule of law, it is a better, more flexible rule of law that works without or only the minimum necessary of centralized authorities, and instead uses decentralized, bottom-up ways to create rules.

On top of that, liberty is the right economic strategy for technology development to succeed. It is entrepreneurial permissionlessness, coupled with a market system for rules and regulations. 

We see the liberty layer as encapsulated in Prospera ZEDE’s legal system and we build longevity on top of it. But again, to build longevity it is not enough to do bioscience. We see the following three narratives as fundamental to make longevity escape velocity succeed:

• Longevity Biotech - accelerate the science that delivers safe and effective new drugs and therapies (bioengineering), with new solutions such as body replacement and cryonics on the horizon to achieve radical life extension. This narrative is about hard science.

• Crypto Cities - build safe harbor cities for entrepreneurs. Cities are needed as physical shells for the legal software for crypto to e.g. bring real-world assets on-chain; fund public goods; decentralize science and incentive design for healthcare, insurance, governance, and identity.

• Human Enhancement - expand human capabilities. Human enhancement is a broad narrative that includes hands-on healthcare delivery, quantified-self, data & AI-driven solutions as well as cybernetic enhancement, neurotechnology & other augmentative and regenerative solutions.