Beyond The Thousand Year Blues
Maybe our hypothetical life was experiencing a bump in the immortal road? Let’s explore the possible future of this hypothetical life for yet ANOTHER thousand years. Why kill yourself now?
Let’s imagine a life-span of 2,000 years, or 20 times the extreme life-span of a modern human.
You cannot plan for such extreme life-spans: What might happen over two thousand years?
3060
In your 1100th year your information processing capacity is increased tenfold by micro implants, allowing you to keep pace with the modern world. Human birth no longer occurs from the womb, and the size of the brain is no longer restricted by the pelvis, nor are the sizes of newborns. Your human birth chamber releases a generation of healthy 21 pound babies with triple the brain capacity of 20th century newborns.
3160
In your 1200th year you follow the fashion of the day and replace your organic parts with organic technology, vastly improving all functions. Complete Memory is developed allowing everyone access to all of their past experiences on demand. There is no longer the possibility of “forgetting” something. Even though all original parts are gone –including your brain – you still seem to be “you.” Form equals function.
3260
In your 1300th year your supergenius children and grandchildren have created vast and stunning artificial worlds between Venus and Earth. Opportunities become difficult for anyone under 300 as the everlasting generations dominate society. The Solar System is restricted to zero population growth, leaving a bitter Last Generation who will never be sanctioned to breed their own children. Endless energy is achieved by your brilliant brain children.
3360
In your 1400th year You have voluntarily “alienized” your organic tech DNA and no longer resemble a humanoid of any fashion. You no longer bear any resemblance to your original 20th-century-born body. There are no longer humans in the form as you originated. Fad, fashion and folly have long-ago displaced the “Michelangelo” human to extinction. Yet you are among the oldest surviving humans, the first Saved Generation.
3460
In your 1500th year The Generations War breaks out between the oppressed “Last Generation” and the “Ancients,” in which the under-300-year-olds try to destroy as many of the extreme old as possible. A battle over Earth is a major climatic arc of the war. Then, the Mars Quarantine is ordered to prevent further exchange of hybrid Earth-Mars biological interaction from infecting the Solar System. You are trapped on Mars.
3560
In your 1600th year the climate of Mars is warming as terraformation gradually builds. Unknown diseases of the hybrid biosphere endanger your immortality. Several colleagues of hundreds of years are killed. However, through personal and interactive communications media, you’ve had the same best friend now for a thousand years.
3660
In your 1700th year the hybrid Martian-Earth world is revealing a hidden inner labyrinth of tunnels and caverns where predatory living rivers snake through the crust of the planet in search of myriad prey. You become an explorer of Inner Mars, discovering new life forms every day. Your reputation spreads across the Solar System and after 18 centuries you’re famous.
3760
In your 1800th year an invasion force from Alpha Centauri approaches the Solar System with the intent of recapturing the ancient homeland called Earth. The First Interstellar War erupts. You sneak off of Mars after 900 years, and are aided by political allies onto a 3-year flight to Proxima Centauri. Slightly over 4 light years away, you enter the 3-star system of newly explored planets and moons a free sentient.
3860
In your 1900th year the Founders of Proximo discover that a deadly plague of hybrid Martian-Earthling viruses started with you. You are identified as a missing Martian and extradited on a 3-year return voyage to Mars to face trial and execution. During the long voyage aboard a city-sized satellite, motivated Alpha Centaurans raid your cell and rescue you. The cure for all hybrid Mars-Earth diseases is found. The Alphas wish to study your condition and you are a captive of an interstellar government for several decades.
3960
In your 2000th year you have been assimilated into and have begun to influence the growing Alpha Centauran culture. You no longer have an active “memory” or emotional sentiment of your first thousand years, but can easily review any moment of them. Alpha Centaurans now control Earth. Four light years away, you become Governor of New Olympia on the bright planet Taurus, even as new technologiers are reaching into other galaxies. For the first time, contact is made with intelligence beyond ours!
Why kill yourself now?
