Hilarious sarcasm, but a little scary to think about: The day someone actually invents medicine that reliably prevents death of old age, human culture will become permanently stuck, tied to that generation. Power, politics, science, wealth, art, and ideas in general, tend to change only when a generation dies and the next one gets a chance to flourish. "Science progresses one funeral at a time," and all that. People accumulate wealth and power, but only until they die. But if the dying part was solved, that final generation would simply accumulate unbounded, forever.
> People accumulate wealth and power, but only until they die.
And their descendants continue right where they left off. It's not much of a difference to them simply not dying.
Lots of good sci-fi explore this topic. I'm a fan of the Altered Carbon novels. The super powerful are effectively immortal and are referred to as Meths for Methuselah.
This comment doesn't belong on HN.
I disagree. I think it totally belongs on HN.
This method of censoring the unpopular. It can only lead to incest and mediocrity.