No one will be able to afford it. It won’t be for sale. Imagine the power of being the only source for functional immortality. It won’t be sold, it will be handed out in exchange for loyalty and service. “You’ll live for as long as I say you live. I’m not threatening you with death, life does that to all of us. I’m promising you life. I’m the good guy.”
Eventually, it will make its way out, but it won’t happen in our lifetimes.
There was a 2011 sci fi movie kinda about that. The movie wasn’t that good but it had some interesting ideas:
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person “times out” and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat currency, transferred directly between people or stored on flashdrive type devices, some in secure bank vaults. Distinct socioeconomic caste “Time Zones” exist; Dayton is the poorest, a manufacturing hub and “ghetto” where people rarely have over 24 hours on their clocks, whereas in New Greenwich, the affluent Zone of plutocrats, people have enough time to be essentially immortal. … the people of New Greenwich hoard most of the time, while constantly increasing prices to impoverish people in less prosperous districts.
I understand why you feel this way, but 1) it’s underway in our lifetimes (quite possibly) and b) it’s going to be cheap.
The first age reversing drugs can already be bought for a couple of thousands of dollars (dasatinib + quercetin (D+Q), an experimental senolytic combination, not very good because it’s the first, better cheaper will come).
Even if the cost is high for starters, governments would subsidise it (maybe not in the usa lol) to have healthier people, medic care for old decripit people cost enormously.
I know people love to hate on this subject, but it’s fantastic research that will help alleviate enormous sufferings, or so I think.
The way people cope with their silly little mortality is by holding on tight to the inevitability. Take that away and they panic, so they can’t think clearly about it.
No one will be able to afford it. It won’t be for sale. Imagine the power of being the only source for functional immortality. It won’t be sold, it will be handed out in exchange for loyalty and service. “You’ll live for as long as I say you live. I’m not threatening you with death, life does that to all of us. I’m promising you life. I’m the good guy.”
Eventually, it will make its way out, but it won’t happen in our lifetimes.
You mean like renting it? Or a subscription?
There was a 2011 sci fi movie kinda about that. The movie wasn’t that good but it had some interesting ideas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
I really liked this movie ! A girl asked me to come watch it with her and I really liked that girl too
But it had Justin Timberlake!
He did an OK job. Mostly it was the script that let it down.
I understand why you feel this way, but 1) it’s underway in our lifetimes (quite possibly) and b) it’s going to be cheap.
The first age reversing drugs can already be bought for a couple of thousands of dollars (dasatinib + quercetin (D+Q), an experimental senolytic combination, not very good because it’s the first, better cheaper will come).
Even if the cost is high for starters, governments would subsidise it (maybe not in the usa lol) to have healthier people, medic care for old decripit people cost enormously.
I know people love to hate on this subject, but it’s fantastic research that will help alleviate enormous sufferings, or so I think.
The way people cope with their silly little mortality is by holding on tight to the inevitability. Take that away and they panic, so they can’t think clearly about it.
Finally someone who understands :-)
Read HPMOR enough times and it eventually sticks.