At least it should be free to those tax payers in Oregon. Anyone outside Oregon who want copies (law students, legal offices, etc) should pay a nominal fee.

I had a full time job at the time (I still do yet with another company), a family that I spent time with and study at the same time. Yet I found the time to do what I like. Some watch TV others collect stamps, some play wow and others whine about time management.

Not as poor as black and white television would look to people who can see in more than black and white.

A story from a while back showed that people who watched black and white TV as kids still often have monochromatic dreams. That to me suggests the brain might handle stepping DOWN in number of colors without much complaint. I'd be more concerned with "would the increased range of colors be extremely distracting, or cause seizures in those of us who have lived without 4 color channels?" It might be constant information overload.

...there is an upper limit of the processes you are talking about...

[citation needed]

The argument from entropy only works if you stop repairing. The whole point of fighting against aging is decreasing that entropy. If you can decrease it faster than it naturally increases, you've won. That's the whole idea.

Has no one here read Aubrey de Grey's theories, or at least Ray Kurzweil's?

Everyone seems to be assuming that in 100 years everything will be exactly the same, except we live longer. No one seems to be taking into account technological advancements that will take place in that time span to help counteract all these social and economic disasters they think would be inevitable. What happens if/when nanotechnology comes to the full fruition and we being living in a post-scarcity world? A big "if", you say? Others say an inevitable "when". I tend to agree. Thoughts?