Living For 1000 Years

[poliphilo]

Chap on TV was saying he knows how to reverse the ageing process. He reckons we'll have it cracked by the middle of the century. After that we'll have the option (not everyone will take it) of living for a thousand years.

Are we ready for this?

Comments

[ex-kharin447.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read 'The Trouble with Lichen' by John Wyndham? It postulates pretty much this scenario.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I haven't.

I guess Wyndham foresees a disaster. I don't think immortality need be that, but it would certainly throw our current social arrangements into confusion.