Gearspins.
Hypothetical.
A solution is found for telomere replication errors, effectively doubling your lifespan. you'll now live to about 160, all aging effects halved, as we know them now.
How would you change your approach to how you live your life, what would you start doing/ doing differently once the treatment was given and took hold.
A solution is found for telomere replication errors, effectively doubling your lifespan. you'll now live to about 160, all aging effects halved, as we know them now.
How would you change your approach to how you live your life, what would you start doing/ doing differently once the treatment was given and took hold.
If I were going to live longer I'd be more careful about things I do that effect others.
Mainly, I'd be obsessed with meeting my great-great grand children. Currently I have little desire to be a matriarch, I'm more interested in being a team player. But if the whole concept of life spans changed like that I'd be more interested in being the head of a large family and wanting to see what various generations under me do with their lives.
Also, I'd try to get more environmentally involved. It might be easier to convince people to care about their home, care about treating it right, if they will be enhabiting it for over a hundred years. When people are staying in a hotel for only a few nights, they don't unpack the suitcase, they don't put any effort into tidying anything. If they'll be in that room for a few WEEKS.... I care about mother earth, but too many people see it as the next generation's problem and don't give a damn. I'd be interested in lobbying and seeing how politics and policies change over time. And I'd love to see the APPROACH to politics change due to people caring about LONGER term ramifications of things they do ( and things they set into motion) today.
I'd seriously consider going back to school for a degree in history TODAY.
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