Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: Peter Stickney (p-stickney_at_Mineshaft.local)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:09:58 -0800

In article <TCtId.1367$Lf2.740@news02.roc.ny>,
        Scott Lowther <scottlowther@ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com> writes:

> There's also the question of who gets it. As with any new medical
> tratment, the rich will be able to afford it first. Thus society will be
> stratified... the immortal rich, the mortal poor. The mortal poor will
> vastly outnumber the immortal rich. There will be war, there will be death.
>
> For the time being, an immortality serum should be one of the most
> illegal things known to man... anyone takign it should be shot on sight.

For the implications of just such a technology, I suggest you dig up
Randall Garrett's "The Hunting Lodge" and "Code in the Head". 

-- 
Pete Stickney			
p-stickney@nospam.adelphia.net
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