If an anti-aging booth was invented about 20 years in the future, how popular would it get and what would happen to society?
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Tanaka Shimoya
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It would probably be incredibly expensive and very popular and we would probably need another couple of planets to hold all the people who just wouldn't die. In short I think it would be a disaster. :(
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It would have to be a well kept secret and therefore available to only but a few of the extremely rich people. If word got out about, it would be outlawed. There are already too many people on earth using up it's resources, so world leaders would ban it to keep the population in check.
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This very question has been asked many times in various SF stories. It always ends in disaster. Hope this helps.
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In one story, people got so bored in their second millennium that they just stopped living and died. In one, the various nations of the world went to war over the machine and wiped themselves out. In one, the side-effect of the processes was sterility and the human race stopped evolving and stagnated. In one, the birth rate remained the same and the overpopulation of the planet resulted in universal suffering for all mankind. I could go on and on... the one thing that these stories have in common is that immortality is a curse, not a blessing. In fact there was one story called "The Curse" and immortality was the "curse" of the story. Hope this helps.
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It'd be available only to those who could afford it. And only to those who don't deserve it.
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It would obviously become a fashion thing with people using it as much as showering. Super fresh!
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