What would change if we humans could live for a million years? For Avi Loeb, it would change a lot of things, like how we process faculty appointments at our universities, as well as how we put candles on our birthday cakes. Aside from that, our perspective and goals would change as well, and we would probably be able to achieve greater things.
An extended life experience could make us wiser and more risk-averse since there is much more at stake. It would make little sense to send young soldiers to wars, or initiate wars in the first place.
This is just wishful thinking, however, but hey, it’s nice to try and widen our perspective once in a while.
Check out Loeb’s article over at Scientific American.
Well, what do you think?
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The planet can't support the number of humans on it now.
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Presumably the main effect would be a significant increase in suicides.... with a lifespan of 1000000 jears, religion would shurely be extinct after a few thousand years. Contracepion would be one of the most important things. Family reunions would be pure hell. Evolution would be just stopped... statute-barred prosecution would hve to be limited to at least 300000 years. Life sentence would be worse that the death penalty... That is, in have a not too optimistic view on this scenario. Near eternal life spans would suck, and the time required to evolve a human species capable of coping with a 1000000 year lifetime would surely exceed the time the expanding sun will need to expand beyond the earth orbit...
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