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"Do We Really Want Immortality?" b...

brokenportal's Photo brokenportal 01 Nov 2011

http://www.davidbrin...immortality.htm

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On a more fundamental level, are we about to insist, once again, that contemporary humanity is wise enough to overrule all of Nature's checks and balances?
(The answer to that one is simple... of course we'll insist! We always do.)
These are among the serious questions and quandaries we may face, perhaps sooner than you think. That is, I hope we face them, for they are the sort of predicaments generated by success.
But then, that's how it always has been. If we leave our descendants a better world, they will take the good parts for granted and fume over consequences we never foresaw.


Edited by brokenportal, 01 November 2011 - 10:20 PM.
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