Comment Social Impact (Score 1) 832
"What sort of social impact can we expect when/if life expectancies are measured in centuries?"
Here's my guess. It all goes pretty peachy for the first couple of hundred years, until we run out room for agricultural production and food. Then we will have to begin eating each other.
This is where controlling our own evolution becomes key. The high priest microbiologists become 10 feet tall with hardened steel exoskeletons. And of course, huge penises so they will get all the good-lookin' chicks.
The rest of us will be evolved to fatten up nicely on the minimum amount of soylent green and will be especially succulent with the right marinade.
After that, it just starts getting freaky.
Here's my guess. It all goes pretty peachy for the first couple of hundred years, until we run out room for agricultural production and food. Then we will have to begin eating each other.
This is where controlling our own evolution becomes key. The high priest microbiologists become 10 feet tall with hardened steel exoskeletons. And of course, huge penises so they will get all the good-lookin' chicks.
The rest of us will be evolved to fatten up nicely on the minimum amount of soylent green and will be especially succulent with the right marinade.
After that, it just starts getting freaky.
