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Wake Up, Deathists! - You DO Want to LIVE 10,000 Years!

Wake Up, Deathists! - You DO Want to LIVE 10,000 Years!

2012-08-27
Source: IEET.org


The future won’t be boring. It will accelerate in excitement. Don’t fear radical life extension - embrace it.

A popular but misinformed POV, adhered to by perhaps 30-45% of the general public, is that living a radically long life would become excruciatingly tiresomedue to unavoidable “boredom.” This pessimistic opinion was advanced by UK writer Stephen Cave in his recent book Immortality: the Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization; even 8.2% of transhumanists think Long Life = Ennui, according to stats in the recentTeresam Survey.

This death-enabling attitude is, IMO, a false and perhaps paranoid conclusion that stems, perhaps, from lack of imagination and foresight.

The future with it’s whirlwind of innovations, discoveries and opportunities for individual growth and expression will be so incredibly and wildly fascinating that the very word BOREDOM itself will become archaic, nonsensical, incomprehensible.

No one will understand what “boring” means in a century; “Boredom” will be defined as a mysterious, extinct mental condition that disappeared from human consciousness.  It will be a mere sound, a rough primitive noise that got flushed down the toilet of vocabulary history.

Why do I believe the future will infinitely intrigue us?....





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