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"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Really Want To Live Forever?

"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Really Want To Live Forever?

Update: 2025-09-11
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We might one day soon have the option to live forever, but… is that even a good thing? And what would it really look like in practice? Let’s take a look at some examples from on screen, like Upload, Pantheon, The X-Files & more, and in real life to get a deeper understanding of the issue.

Humans have always had fantastical ideas about what might happen to us after we shuffle off of this mortal coil. In our modern era, technology seems to be on its way to giving us the option to bring these wild ideas into reality: from preservation to maybe never truly dying at all. This is, on the one hand, exciting to a lot of people. But on the other hand, it also opens up a whole lot of questions around technological capabilities and ethics...

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"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Really Want To Live Forever?

"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Really Want To Live Forever?

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