DEBATE: In the Future, with Radical Life Extension, will there still be Children?
Posted: Sat, May 18, 2013 | By: DEBATE
When people live for 1,000 years, will there still be children?
When Indefinite Life Extension is attained, will human beings still want to reproduce - will they desire to have children?
Will the longing to make, train, and support babies disappear if people can live indefinitely? Or will it vanish, because the primary reason for spawning children is due to our desire to “live” into the future?
Will having children be discouraged or sanctioned against due to overpopulation?

Will the education of children be seen as a tediously slow and dreary way to advance intelligence? Or will we figure out a way to upload high intellect into baby bodies?
Or, inversely, if humans are “young” forever, will we all have dozens, or even hundreds of offspring?
We posed this question to Reddit’s “Futurology” - they’re discussing it HERE
Facebook’s “Singularity Network” discusses it HERE
KurzweilAI Forum discusses it, extensively, HERE
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IMO there wont be children 1,000 yrs. from now; such is projecting this primitive life on the future. ‘Course, no-one can actually predict the future, but that includes smarmsters going on about their grandchildren (the more the old rubes go on about their grandkids, the more I wish their daughters-in-law would have their tubes tied).
Am sick to death of rubes and smarm—in that sense Giulio is correct: we have to be more assertive. They who yell get heard. I like that photo on Peg Tittle’s book, ‘Shit That Pisses Me Off’, it expresses the way to be heard.
What I do now is softly sing “I wish I were in de land o’ cotton, ol’ times dere is not forgotten” in public—they get the message! The sly way is usually the best.
By Alan Brooks on Mar 13, 2013 at 8:20am