Change The Blueprint

[poliphilo]

The human body is in urgent need of a re-design.

I mean, basically, it's the same monkey body we had when we first traipsed out of the woods and onto the savannahs.

It's built to last about 25 years. After which time it starts going wrong. We've quadrupled our life expectancy, but without upgrading the vehicle. And so we spend three quarters of our life-span in a body that's performing well below its best. How stupid is that?

We accept that an athlete is past it by thirty. How abject!

And it's so fragile. Why settle for skin and bone when you could have titanium?

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's interesting.

And hopefully if the head is bigger we'll be able to cram more into it.

[samhain-punk.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be lovely but Einstein's brain was smaller than average so maybe head size will just be another impediment.

I'm just envisioning children of the future tottering around with gargantuan heads on average human frames, the weight becoming worse with age as the muscles of the neck begin to succumb to the extra burden. (Erm, yes, I do have an over-active imagination. Why do you ask?)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We'll just build new extra-big titanium bodies to support those heads.

The people of the future will be exquisitely proportioned robotic giants!

[samhain-punk.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, a brave new world indeed!