Google Venture's Bill Maris: Redistribution of health is more interesting than wealth

Bill Maris of Google Ventures points out the importance of life science innovations in the future at a tech conference held by the Wall Street Journal.

President and CEO of Google Ventures, Bill Maris, talked about what areas of technological innovation might have the biggest impact in the business at the Wall Street Journal's WSJDLive 2015 in California.

Primarily, Maris emphasized the significance of distribution at the conference. "If we distributed the technology that we have already ... without creating any new technology, we can double the lifespan of people on this planet," Maris initiated.

He stated that the existing technology that we have now could extend people's lives for them to live happier and healthier. He believes human could live up to 500 year.

He's been so passionate in life science investments. "There's a lot of talk of the redistribution of wealth, but the redistribution of health is more interesting to me," Maris stated in a news from CNN Money.

The CEO sits with Peter Diamandis of XPrize. Diamandis is also the co-founder of Human Longevity, a facility for human genomics. The company collects data from a person's microbiome and full-body MRI to find out why other people live longer than others.

Diamandis said it is because of genes that a person over a hundred years of age who's been a chain smoker all his life is still in good health.

The two futurists agreed that collecting more genome from a wider sample of people could gain more insights to the study.

Afterwards, Maris gave some forecasts about the future of transportation; teens will prefer Uber than owning a car. People will travel via the Hyperloop, either below or above the ground in super fast speed, Re / Code gives details.

Additionally, people will almost do everything at home; from working to shopping, to paying bills through augmented and virtual reality.

However, for him, health innovation will still be the most important aspect of the future over other areas. He said he'll trade DNA decoding over flying cars anytime.