Not sure about living to 1-2 thousand years, though our current lifespan could use a bit of extension – additional 5o years or so sound good to me. Having the technology to prolong our chronological and biological ages sounds wonderful up to a point, but I think it will also change our attitudes, perceptions and may be even values towards life itself. We treasure life because we know we don’t have it for a long time; we create meanings while we are here. For procrastinators, when would anything get done because there is always tomorrow! :D
Really? So if you had the choice of when to die, you want just 150 years? I think my answer would be like Michio Kaku’s, “Sure.” It would be great to live until I finally succumb in a fatal accident. It’s partly because I am so curious about what the future would be like. I want to be on a spaceship. But maybe you right. We may become so jaded that we do not value anything life very much. I think though that there’s always going to be a percentage of people that love life, however long or short and there will be others that take it for granted. Maybe because we have more time to live, most of us will have a longer chance become wiser in one lifetime…
You do have a very good point, David. The marvels of life are endless and perpetually insatiable for the curious mind. But I think I wasn’t really thinking about myself per se; was coming from a collective position taking into consideration the laws of the averages – the extremities of human nature. I just don’t think we as a human race is ready or equipped with living ‘forever’ because of the vast variables amongst us. May be one day there will be a perfect human race where everyone is positive and kind and curious…may be in 1000-2000 years’ time. :)
Not sure about living to 1-2 thousand years, though our current lifespan could use a bit of extension – additional 5o years or so sound good to me. Having the technology to prolong our chronological and biological ages sounds wonderful up to a point, but I think it will also change our attitudes, perceptions and may be even values towards life itself. We treasure life because we know we don’t have it for a long time; we create meanings while we are here. For procrastinators, when would anything get done because there is always tomorrow! :D
Really? So if you had the choice of when to die, you want just 150 years? I think my answer would be like Michio Kaku’s, “Sure.” It would be great to live until I finally succumb in a fatal accident. It’s partly because I am so curious about what the future would be like. I want to be on a spaceship. But maybe you right. We may become so jaded that we do not value anything life very much. I think though that there’s always going to be a percentage of people that love life, however long or short and there will be others that take it for granted. Maybe because we have more time to live, most of us will have a longer chance become wiser in one lifetime…
You do have a very good point, David. The marvels of life are endless and perpetually insatiable for the curious mind. But I think I wasn’t really thinking about myself per se; was coming from a collective position taking into consideration the laws of the averages – the extremities of human nature. I just don’t think we as a human race is ready or equipped with living ‘forever’ because of the vast variables amongst us. May be one day there will be a perfect human race where everyone is positive and kind and curious…may be in 1000-2000 years’ time. :)