Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
What happens when those children want kids?
What happens when those children want kids?
So they've unlocked immortality and nanotechnology, and yet they can't mine a damn rock in space.
I vote for population control via exterminating the dunderheads who abetted this farcical future.
Space mining isn't exactly as difficult to achieve as functional immortality. We've had probes that returned parts of comets back to Earth. The only thing keeping space mining from becoming reality is current economics. You mentioned scarcity becoming more important, and the nanotechnology makes the job even easier with stronger materials and more efficient parts.Excuse me if I consider stem cells and whatnot to be just a LITTLE more in our grasp than say, terraforming and space mining.
What happens when those children want kids?
Excuse me if I consider stem cells and whatnot to be just a LITTLE more in our grasp than say, terraforming and space mining.
Space mining isn't exactly as difficult to achieve as functional immortality.
The data Rosling provides IS really very nice. It makes me happy every time I see it.
HOWEVER, the future stable human population of 9 billion individuals will all want to consume at least as much resources as each individual in the U.S. is consuming currently!
If we have nanotechnology we should have none of the scarcity issues.
Easy, for every kid you have you just have to kill someone
My best friend's mother is 94, she sits & watches TV from morning until night with a nurse's aid by her side. She's a sweet old woman but can barely remember her son's name & sometimes thinks he is her husband rather than her son.Or for each child born, a grandparent needs to die first.
Edit: Unfortunately, could not find a decent pic of an Inuit geezer being tossed to sea on an ice floe...
You and everyone else, that's why we're doomed.I vote to do nothing. I trust market forces more than I trust doomsday-sayers.