Jerilynn wrote:I keep telling y'all that there will some medical breakthrough(s) in the near future that will extend the human lifespan significantly. Remember, you heard it here first.
I think George Bernard Shaw beat you to it, in
Back to Methuselah: (A Metabiological Pentateuch), which was first performed in 1922. He
is a little bit vague on the details, though. His theory was that the problems of the human condition were entirely due to our limited life span, and that it was absolutely necessary for the survival of the human race that we extend our life span to 300 years, and therefore once we were all sufficiently convinced of that, simply by our willing it to happen, it would happen. Through the action of the Life Force, if I remember correctly.
However, in his play(s) it doesn't happen until 2170 AD. Dang it. Too late for me.
This is the play in which the Serpent says to Eve, "When you and Adam talk, I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things, and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and I ask 'Why not?'" Borrowed by Robert F. Kennedy.
I see no evidence at all of any progress on life extension--more and more of us our reaching our allotment of years and reaching it in better and better health. But it wasn't
rare for men to live into the 80s and 90s two centuries ago--Benjamin Franklin lived to age 84, John Adams to 90--and it isn't
common for men to live past 90 today. Anyway, I thought for a long time that we were never really going to see "flat TV you can hang on a wall," which had been continually promised since the 1950s, but it is finally there. So perhaps if we finally have flat TV, we can get a breakthrough in life extension. If so, would be very convenient if it could happen within the next decade or two. If I can't get that, then, please, can I at least get the helicars and moon colonies? I'll pass on the "complete meal in a single pill."
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness; Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.