Immortality
From Open Source Ecology
- Open source makes you immortal - as your work lives on for ever.
- Great ideas can become immortal, though bad ideas (such as scarcity mindsets) are also deeply engrained - both culturally and biologically
- Biological mortality may or may not be possible. This Scientific American article [1] says that the nature of the genetic code is such that it doesn't encode death - death just happens. That does not mean that immortality is not biologically possible, in that the same organism could encode for replacement of parts over time. Regeneration already exists in the human body. It is possible that degeneration is eliminated by genetic engineering which increases regenerative capacity.
