Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing?

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: With biologists getting closer and closer to reversing the aging process in human cells, the reality of greatly extended life draws closer. This brings up a very important conundrum: You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space. Even at our current growth rate there's not enough for everyone. Not enough food, not enough space, not enough medical care. If — no, when — age reversal becomes a reality, who gets to live? And if everyone gets to live, how will we provide for them?

Comments

let the robots choose

[Anonymous Coward]

The question is not what the people will do with all the extra people, but rather what the robots will do with all the people.

Wait, what?

[grasshoppa]

You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space.

Well, with that kind of negative-nancy thinking, of course nothing's going to get done.