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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Assuming we could tackle the issue Discuss Thrower mentioned, I wouldn't want to see this happen unless we also had the ability to terraform and colonize distant planets as well.
We're already dealing with a space/food/environmental harm issue. That would certainly only be compounded if the elite were able to live "forever".
Speaking of, I wonder what is the number of people this Earth could actually hold. I guess that depends on our agricultural technology as well as tech in energy and other things.
Hmmmm.
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I agree that that is the biggest downside. You'd still have people dying in accidents and catastrophic things like heart attacks, but the population would still increase.
My other concern is that the technology might be priced so that the rich and powerful could do it, but normal people couldn't. While that would prevent the population explosion you predict, it would cause a lot of other problems. However, I would hope that capitalism would prevail due to the profit motive of transcloning for the masses. (I just coined the term "transcloning". Let's try to get it into common use.)