What would the world be like if the average human life span is 1000 years old?

Question

note: The current life span for humans(male and female) is 67 yrs. old(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_lifespan)

Answer 1

We will be a whole lot wiser and a whole lot smarter, be a little more forward in technology. The inventers that made them are still alive and know from they're past mistakes what and what no to do.

Answer 2

On the third day, God created the plants. On the fourth day, He created the sun. On the fifth day, God created the insects. So, for two thousand years, or two million, or whatever, the plants lived without sunlight or insects to pollinate them. Talk about a miracle. Also, if evolution occurred, that means that lots of animals died off before man got here. In order for animals to die off, they have to DIE. Understand? Well, that's a problem because the Bible makes it very clear that Adam's sin brought death into the world (Romans 5:12). Nothing died before Adam sinned. In the Hebrew mindset, plants were not alive. Note that on day five, God created "living creatures." Nothing was living before that. For any biologists out there who think that everyone should think the way they do, just because the Hebrews did not consider plants living, does not mean that they were wrong. It simply means that they looked at the world differently than you do and defined life differently. In the book of Jonah, they refer to a whale as a "great fish" (cross-reference with Matthew 12:40 or something). If they want to classify whales as fish, they have the right to do that. Lastly, Jesus said that God made people male and female from the beginning (Mark 10:6). That means that you can take the ages given in the Bible, add them up, and get a general idea of how old the Earth is from that. Adam was 130 when he had Seth. Seth was 105 when he had Enosh... It can be found in Genesis 5 and other places. It is roughly six thousand years and about 4400 years ago, there was a flood that destroyed the world. It left plenty of evidence too (fossils, fossil fuels, faultlines, layers, canyons, etc.).

Answer 3

Probably Heaven on Earth if the life extension was produced by a benevolent (or benevolently controlled) Quasi-Super-Intelligent Machine or Person (Quasimp for short).

Probably Hell On Earth if said Machine or Person was malevolent. If it got its moral education directly or indirectly (perhaps via programmers who were US Christians, as many are) from the Bible (or the Koran), it might decide that it was either right, just, or safest to ensure that, in accordance with The Lord's Prayer (and/or the Koranic ideal of unconditional submission to God's Will), God's Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, so that unbelievers, heretics, sinners, etc (in practice almost all of us, according to Saint Augustine of Hippo, based on the Gospel's Rare Salvation text 'For many are called, but few are chosen'), all came as close as possible to suffering the eternal agony that is the supposed perfect justice of 'God' - I suspect that our Quasimp would find ways of pushing lifespan towards billions or trillions of years.

Assuming no unforeseen bottlenecks, and assuming software roughly keeps pace with hardware, the crisis may come around 2029, when at least one computer experts says Moore's Law predicts computer chips should match the power of the human brain. In theory there are things we could arguably be doing to reduce the risk. But between religious censorship, apathy, and general disbelief in such alleged 'nonsense', 'lunacy', etc, I've had zero success in trying to get the issue taken seriously over the past 5 years - most people seem infinitely more interested in such infinitely more important matters as Global Warming, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Paris Hilton's anatomy (Sorry for the euphemism, but Yahoo's computer has just asterisked out the 'feline' organ in question).

Answer 4

I think having a life span of 1000 or more would be great. The world would be actually a better place, our wisdom would grow and we would find better solution which are peaceful and make our lives happier. I think it is possible, yet off course consider the chemicals we pump in our bodies and foods. As well as, our negative thoughts, actions and stress. All these affect our life span to limit it. When we truly know that our bodies are meant to be forever. Furthermore, our lifestyle is the one of the key factors that determines our lifespan, thus, our desire to consume too much animal flesh, drink alcohol and inhale smoke causes more damage to our bodies and alters our mind to in an unhealthy way.

Answer 5

I think the world would be better off if the average life span was a lot longer because then people would have to consider the repercussions of their actions for instance, Global warming: people would be more concerned because it would effect them directly instead of their children and grandchildren. Not to mention it would cause humans to either stabilize the population growth or create new and better technologies in order to provide for the population and possibly even begin colonizing the galaxy.

Answer 6

The population of the world has doubled in just the last 50 years. There are too many people now. If people lived 1000 years, the population would increase beyond the capacity of the Earth to provide for it. I think that may well happen anyway resulting in war, famine, hoards of illegal immigrants, etc. The population explosion of this planet is the most urgent problem. It has already led to global warming, environmental degradation, and the extinction or near extinction of many species.

Answer 7

most modern institutions and concepts like marriage, employment, for example, would probably be non-existent, except the most vital ones, because people would not want to be bound to something or someone for so long. imagine for example living for 1000 years in the same house on the same street.

having that life span would also presuppose abundance of food and absence of major diseases which would also eliminate employment as a means of livelihood. people would most likely live and get food from the sea and the land. everything one needs is basically free and concept of private ownership, except the most personal things, would also be non-existent. there would also be very few inventions. there is also no money.

it would also be generally peaceful life. despite long life, there would also be fewer people as reproduction is not a major concern. people would also be more attuned to nature and probably more religious

Answer 8

Yeah...well, people think that pill popping is too popular now..wait until you pass up the age of 150 ....then by the age 900 or 950 you will be using up most of your life popping pills, pooping pills, and you might as well pitch a tent in your doctor's office.

Answer 9

At some point, we'd have make it mandatory that there'd be zero growth.....since the ol earth can maximally sustain no more than 10 billion souls..... At 6.5 billion, we're already on train wreck waiting to happen...

Answer 10

way way to fricking overcrowded. No room for Other life forms no rainforest no Ice at the poles less land due to raised sea level
Famine disease pestilence war death
Bottom line it would be HELL on earth