Posted on 02/09/2017 11:35:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When it comes to business projections, Silicon Valley is the home of the tall story. Unbridled ambitions, unfettered thinking and a belief in the boundless potential of technology produce a steady crop of outlandish expectations. Yet even by Silicon Valley standards the prediction that there are people alive today who will live for 1,000 years is extreme. It conjures less the bold pronouncement of a leading biotech pioneer than the ramblings of a mad professor....
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The downside is that your mental function will be roughly equivalent to a mollusk for 880 of those years.
The upside: You could still become a Federal appellate judge!
Or a Rap star.
“Yo. Imma let you finish your homemade smushed banana, But I just wanna let you know that Gerber’s makes the best food for the over 200 set.”
I would not be surprised if humans are seriously reaching for immortality after another thousand years of high level medical research.
The problem is pretty basic - what is the molecular biology of cell development and cell aging, and how do we control it?
After we have a molecular map, maybe it will take another two or three thousand years to refine the technology and bring down the costs.
But five thousand years from now, I think immortality will be the new normal.
“But five thousand years from now, I think immortality will be the new normal.”
Better hope there are other planets to colonize by then, as with immortality the Earth’s human population will number in the mega-trillions.
And we all will not be able to draw Socialist Insecurity payments until age 990 or face confiscatory penalties.
Nope, the Bill Gates, Ted Turners, and Yoko Onos of the world would like to see the world population knocked down to 250,000,000. Fewer people living, each living 1000 years. And no one left to do the dishes (except maybe worker drones denied immortality who exist as the “dead in 25 years” sheeple).
Well it was the norm a long,long time ago to routinely live over 500. I’m surprised nobody has brought that up from the bible.
A handi-dandi full-scale nuclear war or a worldwide unstoppable, incurable plague would work to achieve that fool’s dream. However, there is no assurance with either or similar scenarios that the initiators would survive no matter what precautions were taken - the doo-doo occurres principle.
A catastrophic pole shift, super volcano eruption, or a ELE killer meteor are more likely - but then survival is problematic for any living organism at the time.
You better hope that by 7017 that interstellar space travel is a common reality.
I would not be surprised if humans are seriously reaching for immortality after another thousand years of high level medical research.
Humans are clever. Once they know how a thing works, even in biology, they can then alter it. It’s what’s happened with mapping the human genome.
I also believe that when this ability is acquired, we (the peasants) won’t know about it.
According to the bible, this was a pretty standard lifetime possibility before the flood. Once the waters above stopped protecting us from solar radiation, our lifespan changed.
The downside is that you’ll see more snowflakes protesting....and more liberals would be protesting for ‘more rights for over the 500 years set’, like free teeth..
What difference does it make? According to the global warming "experts" we'll all be under water in 10 years anyway.
My retirement benefits won’t last that long...
One of the biggest problems with living an antediluvian lifespan is that you have all that time to have accidents that will result in physical maiming. I might live to be 900 but I will lose an arm, an eye, etc. There is just so many awful things that can happen if you live like you’re twenty for centuries. Lot’s of us here are surprised that we somehow lived thru our twenties, imagine having 800 years of that. I’m sorry, it’s Friday and here I am being Professor Buzzkill.
Is this the same scientist who says we won’t be here in 1000 years because of “global warming”?
Ok, Prof. Buzzkill, Pollyanna dropping by here for a moment:
We already have rudimentary progress towards functional organ and limb regeneration, with assists from 3-D printing and biomechanical implants.
Not everyone will want an extremely long life span and some will make a fetish of only living ‘3 score and 10’, but some will. It won’t take much to mobilize people towards some sort of universal provision of whatever is possible. At the least, we won’t have people condemned to a life of disability, whether by birth or accident. I already know people in their 90s who live on their own and function perfectly well. It will only get more common.
The drive to reproduce will be tempered by the lessened need for support of the elderly. As reproduction also becomes divorced from actual in-body gestation and stored germ plasm obviates the biological clock, population increase could decline.
Robotics will take over the more mundane functions of life/society. We already have the Universe of Things, now it needs to become more secure, less intrusive and more intuitive.
If countries organize on the principals of corporate shareholding, then, like Alaska and some of the oil-rich countries in the ME, dividends will accrue to citizens. Since jobs exist today that were unthought of twenty years ago, there will be scores of ways to earn a living that we can’t even conceptualize right now. Advancements (sans globalist prog obstruction)could make utilities, shelter and food nearly free, or so cheap that obtaining them will be as easy as finding air and water is today.
Humans are amazing and excel at advancement. Once something is shown to be possible, some people will work to make it actual and they or others will work to make it smaller, cheaper, more efficient and ubiquitous.
Ill will and the will to power will always find ways to obstruct advancement and improvement. Definitions of advancement and improvement will shift. It is as easy to posit beneficial change as it is to posit the opposite.
Pollyanna peace out.
God has decreed otherwise. This corner of the universe has enough cosmic rays (thanks to a few supernovas that popped in the neighborhood) to limit the lifetime of mankind.
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