[C19fan]

Stories straight out of movies like "Prometheus" and "Terminator Salvation". Is the search for immortality selfish? If you are going to have much longer life spans then that will mean the state will eventually have to ration births. Only when someone dies by accident will that open up a slot for a couple to have a child.

[yldstrk]

I always think of boob jobs when I hear “Silicon Valley”.

[GOPJ]

Yeah? More like, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.

[IronJack]

I don't know that we, the living, owe anything to the yet-unconceived. If I could live forever, I would definitely want to consider it.

I think one of the biggest challenges would be to decide when enough was enough and it was time to pull the plug. Because I'm convinced that that day would come eventually to everyone. Life might not prove so exciting when you have unlimited time to do everything. It's its very finite-ness that makes every second valuable.

[farming pharmer]

I’m thinking more like the Cylons of (re-imagined) Battlestar Galactica.

[cuban leaf]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3242687/posts?page=6#6

[fishtank]

About ten years ago, I thought that a medical extension of human lifespans to 500 or 1,000 years would be not only possible, but maybe even inevitable......

Imagine how evil the world would become if your "favorite" dictator was able to live that long........

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t think social security will sustain my immortality.....

[TexasFreeper2009]

That’s only an issue if the technology is available to everything. As long as it is extremely expensive and only the very wealthy can afford it, it’s not an issue.

[Hazwaste]

Get up early, work at an office job, go home, eat, go to bed, repeat...forever?

No thanks, I’d rather go see Jesus.

[CommerceComet]

I hope that my mortality providing software isn’t Window-based. I’d hate to have to be re-booted a couple of times a day.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Eventually, we will be usurped.