From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 01:29:35 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
"Things *would* change if we all would have become immortal
overnight, but merely because the deep time perspective would gradually
change your outlook. People would start interacting more constructively, and
realize that the current level of development will eventually allow them to
ascend to loftier places by incremental patches and redesign of their
substrate."
Yes it would. I think you're right. I think we become 'very long-lived' very
quickly in around a dozen years from now (genetic and proteomic therapies)
and then VERY
Life is neat, and all, but hanging around verbatim for a billion
years?
Seem to get awfully stale after a few kYears, if everything else
stays as
is.
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