300-Year-Old Humans and the 'Internet of Everything'?

I already have more information than I need. I wish cell phones had never been invented, and we could do well without television as well. Why anyone would want to live for 300 years is also beyond me. After the first 100, I can only see settling into unimaginable boredom, a fate much worse than death. The unintended consequence of this, is the addition of millions to an already overcrowded world of diminishing resources. So the net would be a brave new world of war and pestilence, as we squabble over food and water. No thanks.

Good point about the limited resources Dave, this planet can only carry a certain number of humans and for every year we extend our life expectancy that equates to the planet having to support additional population that it can't sustain. In wild animals when their populations grow too large they are controlled by starvation, disease, preditation, weather, or some other factor. We don't have these same factors to control our population as humans, we suffer from what is commonly called the "Rat Syndrom" which causes deviant behavior such as homicide to lessen our population.

I agree with both Dave and Eric, but the future is as very much unpredictable, as it is predictable. Perhaps we will find better ways at cultivating and harvesting the land in the future, and these strives in technology will help us better understand how to change extra terrestrial bodies as well, allowing the human population to thrive elsewhere other than earth. Albeit any successful and thriving population growth anywhere will cost globs of money. I wonder, do we need to better balance life expectancy with the cost of living, and human freedoms like perhaps limiting family growth, or taxing child count, rather than reaping the benefits thereof?

Not only would it be unsustainable from a resources perspective, but a person would have to work until they are 250 or so, so that they could afford to retire the last 50 years of their life. There won't be enough jobs to go around as we keep adding young people to the job market if the older ones don't retire.

I agree with both Eric and Dave but I also want to mention that The Earth produces more than 5 pounds of vegetation per day for each person living on it. Sadly, we are witnessing that some people do not get an ounce a week where many have so much that they discard usable food in trash. It is the injustice, greed, monopolizing and lack of fair distribution that causes mayhem and discontentment. We must focus on improving the quality of lives rather than quantity of living years.

In the world that he is describing, is it not possible that these challenges could be planned for, and have solutions ahead of time, i.e. stock piling of food, consuming vitamin capsules instead of as much food, un derground homes, mile high building facilities (plenty of room up there) living facilities in the seas, on the moon, etc.....thank goodness the people who don't WANT to live for 300 years won't have too. We need people who can create a future that works, not tell us why it won't :)

Small minded to apply this future prediction to current day technology and societal infrastructure. The article mearly says that from a predictive standpoint it could one day be achievable. I tend to believe that it won't, can't, wouldn't happen unless all the other "chips" fell into place. (Except perhaps for the evil contemporary demigods who will take advantage of the system)

They already have those mirrors--and what doc would want to have his cell buzz every 10 seconds--"Mildred is looking peaked again..." I am sick of two-word answers to my emails--sent from phones. I am sick of never getting anyone's prime time--they yell at traffic while talking to me! None of these stupid sites work right--Blogger went to the much-prized "crazy hard" standard--as did GoDaddy. Three hundred yrs of this? Either limping around or with my mirror pestering some doc who won't even want me anyhow because I am on Medicare?

I am less concerned with the advances in technology than I am with the speed of those advances. Technology is changing faster than society can keep pace with. Social standards, etiquette, or even just the most basics of politeness can't keep up. A bunch of years ago if you had a cell phone your were a big deal so you wanted to show off by talking to anyone and everyone every chance you got. Now cell phones are almost ubiquitous so sitting on the subway/train/bus and talking loudly is simply rude. The technology outpaced society.

Golly gee, between a good eugenics program and govt. healthcare treatment selection committees, you could solve most of those challenges, don't you think? If humans could engineer their wisdom to keep pace with their engineered intelligence, humane solutions to most of these challenges might emerge. Bucky Fuller was an abundant-world optimist and one of my favorite thinkers. He believed we had the capacity to always find solutions, particularly to scarcity. But a world full of data minutia on the same network as a world-worth's artificial intelligence sounds more Skynet than Dymaxian. Scarcity leads to profitability and concentration of power, abundance leads to egalitarianism.

From a metaphysical technological perspective, the more longing you live in the physical reality, the more damaged one's "Soul" becomes because of just relying on bioinformatics and environmental factors, poor air, too much electromagnetism from machines and many other physical devices could possibly damage the human body. Humans should let “nature” take its course and use technology as aids. The human should be able to alter their own DNA structure, 2 strands of light through the CNS (phi/pi) internally and externally with the right dieting, exercising, and spending more time in nature. Humans should not be overdosing on technology alone to “treat” the human body. In response to the last paragraph, the human should be able to use their own cognitive map to locate parking and not allow retailers to predict where they should park. It is not that serious. The less you use the brain, the more you lose your natural 5 senses. Key word phrases: spiritual technologies and physical technologies, phi/pi Freud’s assessment of the central nervous system, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and light, electromagnetism.

Things that make you go hmmm... Do you suppose that gestation periods for women would also quadruple? Would the terrible twos span two decades? Would we then have time to stop and smell the roses, or will big business still run the show and our lives and keep pressing us for more productivity in less time with higher taxes and less rights (human rights, Bill of Rights, etc.)? Will I have to learn Chinese at age 220 because we've defaulted over Obamacare and China has bought us out? Chevy/GM has already Kow-towed to them...who's next?