On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, David McFadzean wrote:

> > If we focused on this issue, and made the technology open and
> > available, and accidental or violent deaths do not increase, it will
> > be possible for healthy individuals who are alive in 2035 and can
> > afford to own a home to live to 1000 years.
>
> That's the same reasoning I used to answer the new poll at>>
> http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=54;action=voteResults;idvote=57
> though I think the drop dead date is closer to 2050, 2035 is certainly
> possible. The poll was tough to answer because there is this point
> of instability at the drop dead date like a sphere perched on a ridge
> where the slightest perturbation could send it down either side, in
> this case into permanent death or emortality. In other words, most
> people who die before 2050 will live less than 100 years, while those
> who die after 2050 will live on average 1000+ years.

I think those numbers are highly America-centeric.

The average lifetime actually follows the same sine-wave
rhythm as population evolution. With the increase in numbers,
comes an increase in diseases, less resources per individual
and with that, the decrease of average lifespan.

This may not hold true for Americans, seeing that they now
consume 25% of world's fossile fuels, while being only 4%
of it's population, and now that they have managed to take
control over Iraq's Oil resources and are planning to take
over Saudi-Arabia's as well, they pretty much have their future
cut out for them.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/floyd/030223_AmericanDominance.htm

But as for the Africans, Arabs and Asians... I think AIDS will
radically do what it has already done in some places in Africa,
namely cut down the average lifespan to some 30 years, making
the general population largely ignorant and uneducated. - Unable
to support a modern civilization.

> > At that time, all war will be called "terrorism", and there will be
> > one unified government which is generally perceived as benign by most
> > people.  True transhumanism will be available only to the military
> > and to outlaws.
>
> James Halperin's books, The Truth Machine and The First Immortal,
> are set in the same future with a world govt scenario. Definitely
> worth reading.

So will it be Bush? Any bets on that?
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