Immortality and Civilization.
Assume for a moment that humanity discovers a secret of rejuvination (has the ability to revert the boilogical clock to the age of 18 with a simple treatment). What woudl be the affects on society and civilization? would we stagnate in our development as there is not longer an imAssume for a moment that humanity discovers a secret of rejuvenation (has the ability to revert the biological clock to the age of 18 with a simple treatment). What would be the affects on society and civilization? would we stagnate in our development as there is not longer a driving force for survival?pedeius to advance?
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I would think the more immediate worry if one was able to live forever would be the death of the sun and it swallowing up the earth possibly in it's death throes.
Would the immortality last throughout that?
Would the immortality last throughout that?
One presumes that interstellar space travel would be a reality before that happens, after all that's four billion years in the future. Theoretically you can escape from the solar system, but you cannot escape from the Universe.
The two most common thoughts are:
How about -- 3. "Dark energy" is the effect manifested on this cycle of the Universe from the coming emergence of the next 'universe'.
What I don't like about immortality is the potential relationship to eternity. I get stuck when I wonder "If something has been here forever, how long did it wait before reaching 'now'?"
Tom
How about -- 3. "Dark energy" is the effect manifested on this cycle of the Universe from the coming emergence of the next 'universe'.
What I don't like about immortality is the potential relationship to eternity. I get stuck when I wonder "If something has been here forever, how long did it wait before reaching 'now'?"
Tom
What I don't like about immortality is the potential relationship to eternity. I get stuck when I wonder "If something has been here forever, how long did it wait before reaching 'now'?"When you talk about eternity, "how long" has no meaning. It's like saying, "What happened before time began?"
Eternal questions being asked now.
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There is a certain type of individual who wants "power". These individuals tend to stick together - the Old Boy network. One finds them all over the place, at heads of corporations, governments, banks, and international agencies. We get rid of them by retiring them off, although that is difficult, because often they don't want to go and often we cannot force them. Most of them are over fifty, some over sixty and there are a fair number over seventy. It is only the natural process of aging which forces them eventually out of their positions. If people never aged, they'd be the biggest problem society would have. It is not the case that society would stop progressing - if in fact it actually does - but you'd have a gerontocracy - rule by the elderly, who would not necessarily be wise and would not ncessarily allow "change from below".
There is a certain type of individual who wants "power".Everyone wants power. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you or themselves.
1. Eventually it's going to continue to expand to the point where subatomic particles are light-years away from each other, effectively making the Universe cold and dark.
2. There is enough mass to reverse the expansion which will cause the Universe to fall in on itself resulting in a "Big Crunch"
Now, if one discovered the magic elixir that kept him/her alive, young, and forever healthy, what would be the result eons hence when the universe ended?