Friday, June 24, 2011
Beyond
I've been reading about transhumanism this morning. If we had the ability to live much longer than the current life span, or even for eternity, I wonder how suicide would be viewed, or where we'd go when we used up the earth, or how many marriages an average person would have...or if marriage would become obsolete. Would we breed?
Would money still be king?
Perhaps only the rich would be able to afford the nanotechnology used to achieve extended life, therefor leaving those middle class and poorer to their natural timely demise. Poverty would literally die out, and I suppose religion as well. Although I think we'd find many'a preacher demonizing science and condemning all those weak and living in the sin of evolution to the fires of hell...then fifty years later the preacher's congregation will have died off and the preacher himself will be thriving on robotics, hating himself as he always had. Maybe for a time poverty and religion might be eradicated, the question is: is it inevitable that they would return?
It would be so cool to have a conversation with a "transhuman". I bet there would be an absence of egocentricity, how else would we survive?
Vive la evolution!!
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