I don’t know how many of you know it yet, but scientists are already making strides to effectively shut off aging. We may not see it in our immediate lifetimes, but the ground work is already being laid to quite literally turn the aging process off. You wont be able to go backwards in time (yet) and you would still be able to die by getting into a car crash or your parachute failing to deploy while skydiving, but in theory in the future not too far away you will be able to pick an age and just stay there. Instead of cells dividing and creating imperfect copies of themselves and compounding the imperfection by the copys making even more imperfections, science could make it so your cells create exact perfect copies of themselves thus aging stops completely.
Being a STEM major in my senior year at uni and preparing myself to enter grad school I am a little more accustomed than the average person to hearing aboutthis stuff, yet it still bothers me. We are literally seeing the beginning stages of humankind having to deal with the concept of eternity in reality. I mean, the progress of science yields for no one, so eventually this is going to become a reality at some point and I don’t see people (including myself) having the faintest clue of how to deal with potentially living forever. What does a person do after they experience everything they have ever wanted and still have gobs of time on their hands?
As I have thought about all this it has made me reflect about the Kyrian a bit. These guys have figured it out. They know how to deal with eternity. They become immortal and had to figure it out. What they realized is that they have to have an eternal purpose and meaning in their “lives” to combat the existential problem of eternal existence. In a way the Kyrian do vaguely echo the effect of far off future of humanity. The Kyrian succeeded in creating eternal purpose and meaning for themselves, and we will have to do the same.
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Think about how many hours of maintenance we’ll have to deal with.
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We have more than enough science fiction to examine the ways the world could look with immortality.
Few of them are pretty.
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Blizzards going to have to beef up its staff 
Kyrian literally saved Uther.
Kyrian represent.
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We are going to turn blue?
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Yes, Malgorok. We will all become Bluther.
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Eww I don’t want to be blue. But If we are allowed to change how we manifest in the afterlife I’d try changing genders for the intents of seeing what it is like.
cloning technology for general use of society when
Only if you decide to instead get a bit tortured before unlocking the red bits! Fun!
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“The pain is almost euphoric, Sam!”-Max, Sam&Max Freelance Police.
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Hopefully by that time we will also have figured out space travel, that’s what I would entertain myself with personally. Exploring.
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You truly do not need to worry OP.
The global economy will fracture and send the nations of the world into their own tail-spins long before we can truly unlock immortality. We won’t be able to field the necessary work. We’ll be farming again.
So cheer up!
(Also: If we cure cancer, we basically unlock immortality. Gotta figure out how to artificially manipulate those telomeres on DNA and we’ve got it! In cancer, the telomere never breaks and the truly immortal cells end up killing us. In healthy cells, there’s only so many times one can cut the telomere before cells die without dividing… and we age…)
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No one actually lives forever. Yes you could theoretically stop aging but death would still occur. Also the world would become way over populated.
I’m scared to see what becomes of this planet tbh. Seems like each generation after it becomes more and more lazy. Eventually people will complain when they have to do so much as move a finger
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Huh, so Deadpool is eternally ageless but basically still ugly as sin? Not sure if the payoff is worth it or not…
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This is such a cute sentiment.
Whenever I have a thought like this, I remind myself that it is my turn to think this way.
When I was a teenager, I looked forward to being the one who could say “kids these days”.
Was it as fun for you as it was for me?
Cue the Plato quote about “kids these days” from B.C.
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Biological Immortality sure would be nice.
Then I can settle down and use the miracle of compound interest to set the groundwork for the resources I need for the only true pursuit that matters…
https://i.imgur.com/ZSuHLX9.gif
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He still gets with Morena Baccarin so I’d say so.
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Fair point, he did also get like Captain America super soldier strength out of the incident, so that probably helped…
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