Joe Jenkins wrote:
> Consider the "ultimate generation gap" - that gap between mortality
I am guessing that this is based on average life expectancy.
> and immortality. My best conservative guess for defining this
> as follows:
>
> Birth Date
> <1957 "mortal generation"
> 1957 - 1967 "The real generation X" (grey/fuzzy area)
> >1967 "Immortal generation"
>
> note: this is for the overall population, early adaptors of technology
> and cryonics subscribers are exempt.
It all depends on when you expect life extension technology to become available. I'm thinking the next ten to fifteen years. We won't need nanotech to become immortal, IMHO, just good genetic engineering based health care. Come down with a flu one week, you are immortal the next. We will need nanotech to revive those cryo'ed, but those still living under retirement age today should make it, for the most part.
Mike Lorrey