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Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation
(scitechdaily.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Horray, the rich will live forever! All hail our immortal overlords!
Don’t worry we'll live forever too since now we won't have to retire
Yeah, check out Altered Carbon (the first book or the first season) for how this would likely play out.
The other implication of that show is that you need to keep paying, even after you're dead. You are no longer earning anything in the afterlife and are entirely dependent on having family/friends/loved ones continue paying for your access to the upper tier. But once the "second death" where people forget about you happens, the poor experience is inevitable, and you accept that you're nothing more than a scanned consciousness to be used by this corporation for profit.
I like how you only mentioned the first season, I didn't watch season 2 at all..
Anthony Mackie did great with what he had to work with. But the writing sucked.
I guess this is the future that will come sooner or later...
Btw if someone doubts about it - it's already happening. Here is the example.
Peter Thiel and probably Donald Trump have supposedly been injecting themselves with children's blood, or at least a derivative from their blood.