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Today@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In 120 years the earth will be all new people. That scares my kids. Makes me hopeful.
This is what makes experienced history so extremely short.
In general, people have a somewhat ok understanding of how their grandparents lived, and they might know a few stories about their great-grandparents, maybe one more generation after that, but that where it ends and where history books with dates and numbers begin.
That’s where you get statements like “In the past people did/believed/were like/… X” from. No, your grandparents did/believed/were like/… X, not all people in the past.
Or we crack the code to repair damage caused by aging.
There is just about zero chance that those changes would filter down to the masses, so hopefully that doesn’t happen. I don’t want billionaires to live forever, that would be some real life vampire shit.
Actually it’s debunked that only rich would benefit. Any sane country would prefer paying less to keep people healthy than more for health care, and the treatments are in theory not costly by themselves.
Maybe at the start rich people will try out treatments before economy of scale have hit, a bit like mobile telephones (at the start they were super expensive and worked not well). Except they are now the guinea pigs.
How could you possibly know that the treatments to reverse againg aren’t costly by themselves?
vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And machines will stay the same. That’s why they are superior.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
I challenge you to find a 120yo machine near you that is in working condition.