If that's going to be the case I think the creation of babies and sex should become completely seperate processes. Human nature is subject to change but that's one thing that's never going to change, and controlling that would be impossible.

And condoms do break sometimes.

Which probably wont be difficult at the time.

It really depends how far you go. Immortality is one thing, but there are so many things we could change. By the time we're finished, humanity as we know it could cease to exist. Life as we know it could cease to exist.

Like we all know, the most basic form of life is the cells that make up our bodies. If we replace these cells with nanomachines, imagine the kinds of things we could do. These ideas scare a lot of people (see: Cybermen), but I find it fascinating.

The optimal form for life to take is a form of self-replicating nanomachine with a collective intelligence which would then spread across the entire universe until all matter was a single collective intelligence, which would effectively become like a God.

After that point you can spend all week speculating as to what happens. I'm inclined to follow Scott Adam's theory, which is that 'God', having done absolutely everything it could possibly do, destroys itself, creating the Big Bang and starting the Universe over again.

But that raises this question... could such an intelligence already exist? It obviously doesn't give a hoot about us if it does, but it is possible. Regardless of when it appeared, if there is life elsewhere, surely one rose to this level of advancement or was born that way.

If such an intelligence already existed, we wouldn't. The universe and this intelligence can't exist simultaneously, this intelligence becomes the universe.

Immortality FTL.

Suit yourself. :P

So eventually, we could wipe out disease altogether also, and make ourselves indestructible as well as immortal over natural causes.
Yeah, I'm beginning to see how this could be the greatest thing that would ever happen to humanity, and it could all happen in the next 100-200 years by the sounds of it.

Immortality FTW forever then! =D

Why don't you kill yourself now and see for yourself how mortality suits you?

Indestructible is impossible, we'd still die if we were sucked into the sun, for example. We just wouldn't age.

We'd become immune to all diseases mostly due to incompatibility.

It depends how much say idiots like Ross have in it. It could happen in under 50.

+1

WTF? I'm with Superkid -- suit yourself.

I hope so. I'd like to be around to see it happen (and yes, benefit from it).

I think we all could feel the same way

DS.com to last until the end of time maybe? ;)

Wow.

Can you imagine still hanging around here 200 years from now?

Also, on the topic of space travel... you know, if Jet Lag's bad I wonder how bad spaceship lag would be?

Well, if it's any consolation, I'll keep the site going if I am indeed alive 200 years from now. Watch this space.

I'm thinking we could replace body parts with organic, yet sturdier parts...that are modelled on our actual parts...consider it replacing stock parts with suped up parts on a car.

I imagine by then we'd have an accurate enough age for the universe to be able to count time as 'seconds from the big bang'.

Oh, and then there's the whole fact we'd likely no longer need to sleep.

Cybermen...?

Yeeees, Cyyyyybermen...

I actually sympathized for Lumic and thought the Doctor was a wanker making unsubstantiated claims about immortality being wrong.

Then again Lumic did take the whole concept a bit too far. As much as his idea for immortality was a good one, i think he went overboard on it,

He used technology far too primitive for them to really be called 'human.2' anyway.

More like human 0.0.0.1 combined with bionic limbs 3.0.