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No, amoebas - they reproduce by splitting, so technically the first ever one of 'em is still out there somewhere. Or more realistically, lots of somewheres.
And Tardigrades have sod all on cockroaches! 
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Maybe, but -- like flying cars -- I wouldn't necessarily want anyone else to have access to it.
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Good point.
If everyone lived forever, or at least for a long, long time, then the planet would get seriously crowded!
Perhaps just for me and my family (including the dog - my wife cries so much each time we lose a little furry friend).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I don't know. I would like the entire world have access to it. Have your heard the Chinese are going to dominate the world, because of their shear numbers. There are lots space out in the cosmos to uncrowded. 
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An extra thought is: Would I retire?
My wife wonders why, when I get home from work, I start working on my computers at home. It's because I enjoy programming - creating new software is fun (usually).
A few years ago I was given the opportunity to give up the management line (Director/Manager of Software Development) and went back to "pure" programming as a Senior Software Engineer. It was actually slightly more money and much, much more fun! It was the best decision I made, career-wise - and probably health-wise as my stress levels dropped considerably. Since then I moved to another job, also as a Senior Software Engineer, which paid a lot more money, with shorter hours and even less stress - and I got learn a lot of new stuff. Fascinating.
Eventually, I suppose, the amount of new stuff that I want to learn may drop off but, until then...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I get your point. Coding is my hobby and I too passed up on management offer. The idea of going to work and just talk to people, sitting through mind numbing meetings after meetings and writing reports is not my idea of fun.
For retirement, as the way economy is going, most of us would not be able to retire. Social Security may be dried up by the time we get to call it permanent vacation. I will work until I dropped dead on my keyboard.
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Leng Vang wrote:
For retirement, as the way economy is going, most of us would not be able to retire. Social Security may be dried up by the time we get to call it permanent vacation.
I've always taken for granted this is actually going to be the case. If there's anything left, don't want it to live on, I want it purely as a bonus.
I have some retired acquaintances who are living miserably (no other way to put it) with whatever the government decides they're allowed. I don't want that for me.
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I do program in my spare time, but that is not because I find programming fun [any longer].
I program because I encounter lots of tasks in fery different fields where some software can be a nice tool to solve another issue. Like keeping track of my music collection. Like illustrating how real life objects might interact, in a small simulation model. Like making a workable backup system for my computer. Yes, a backup system is directly related to the computer, but what I strive for is to have the software completed and available, not the programming of it.
Maybe I want to "solve problems". But those problems are not in multiple inheritance and sofware paradigms and self modifying code and patterns. Those are not the real problems. Even if my problem solving uses software as a hammer and a saw, the real problem has little to do with the compiler. I care for some real problems, not for the tools as such.
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It would depend on whether my loved ones were also taking this new medical breakthrough. If they were, then yes. I could live a longer life surrounded by those I love. If they weren't, then I would prefer to live out my allotted years as nature intended.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Retire...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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If I put 10K in an index fund at let's say 5% annually, what would that be in 1000 years?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Monetary concept may not live pass the next 100 years. 
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So we'll do things purely "...in pursuit of higher goals"?
Yeah, as much as I like Star Trek's optimism, Gene Roddenberry dropped the ball on that one. This ain't happening.
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After 100 years it would be: $1,315,012.58
After 750 years it would be: $77,978,396,963,807,380,000.00
After that, the calculator overflows.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, if they have the same calculators in 1000 years, that would be one of the problems
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Maybe they will even have invented log10 by that time to cope with bigger numbers.
(Of course natural log, ln, would work as well, but that would require a deeper understanding.)
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log10 is communism, it will never work
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Maybe they will even have invented log10 by that time to cope with bigger numbers.
(Of course natural log, ln, would work as well, but that would require a deeper understanding.)
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Better make it 2% to adjust for inflation.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Confiscated by the government somewhere around year 37. At year 37.006 they turn off the updates for the nano-technology keeping you alive due to non-payment.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In the long, long, run common rate of return assumptions just wont pan out.
Story made short: Two descendents of two men find a 2000 year old scroll that is a document of one shekel loan at 8% annually between their ancestors, never paid back. The one descendent decides to make good to the other on the ancient debt only to find that the cost of the compounded interest is a ball of gold bigger than the sun.
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Some may not want to live pass tomorrow. Me? I would love to live several hundred million years. Imagine what you could've accomplished. Mere 70-80 years is really a blink. You spent 30 years learning to barely walk. And spent another 35 years just to get establish and then you ran out of time to do what you really born to do.
If scientists figured out how to prolong cell delay (hence live longer), they would have figured out how to cure most diseases too.
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As if its not hard enough ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Robert Heinlein wrote an interesting book on this topic called, "Time Enough For Love." The central character is Lazarus Long who deals with this question because they have all of the treatments available to do just that. I'll refrain from mentioning his decision.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'm glad I read through all the replies before putting in my 2c worth. I loved all the LL stories starting with Methuselah's Children.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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