lunes, 1 de abril de 2019

Eternal Life


"The great struggle to adapt society to the greatly extended human lifespan took more than a century, however. Virtually every aspect of social, economic and political life underwent a fundamental change once the dread aspect of death had been thus removed to a distant horizon.

Humanity showed its resilience, in time. Birth rates around the world are very close to death rates now. Global population growth is stabilizing — not without a struggle, but a stable world population is in sight. Today, the birth of a baby is a cause for celebration by the entire community. Couples no longer have children to please their parents, or to gain some perceived advantage in their community. Babies are rare, and cherished.

The advent of immortality has brought an unexpected additional benefit. For all of history, humans have thought the stars were utterly unreachable. Even with modern space technology, it would take centuries to reach the nearest stars. Now, we have centuries to spend. Today the ships bearing the families of scientific explorers are heading out beyond the fringes of the solar system, plying the long, silent pathways to the stars, bearing the seeds of humankind into a waiting Universe."

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