{"id":105931,"date":"2020-04-23T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-to-live-when-nobody-dies"},"modified":"2020-04-23T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:10:18","slug":"how-to-live-when-nobody-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-to-live-when-nobody-dies","title":{"rendered":"How to live when nobody dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-live-when-nobody-dies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three score and ten is so 1970s. Today, the average baby born in the UK will live long enough to see the beginning of the 22nd century. Increasingly we also hear claims of longevity breakthroughs that could propel those children \u2013 and maybe even their parents \u2013 into triple digits and beyond. Is eternal life something we want outside of science fiction? And how will society cope if it is?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first ten million years were the worst,\u201d said Marvin. \u201cThe second ten million years, they were the worst, too. The third ten million years I didn\u2019t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So opines Marvin, Douglas Adams\u2019 paranoid android, who follows the protagonists of \u2018The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy\u2019 around like a bumbling, grumbling storm cloud. Functionally immortal (and cursed with a \u201cbrain the size of a planet\u201d), Marvin is the hubristic dream of eternal life printed and stamped in circuitry. While his human shipmates stumble from one disaster to another, devoting their limited talents to avoiding death at all costs, Marvin plods glumly along, bemoaning the pointlessness of an infinite existence in which there is nothing new to learn, no challenge to his intellect and in which everyone \u2013 even his closest friend, a rat that nested for a time in his foot \u2013 dies. Except him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three score and ten is so 1970s. Today, the average baby born in the UK will live long enough to see the beginning of the 22nd century. Increasingly we also hear claims of longevity breakthroughs that could propel those children \u2013 and maybe even their parents \u2013 into triple digits and beyond. Is eternal life [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}