During the whole history of humanity, humans have born, people have got old, and finally, humans have died. This has always been this way but in the future it could change.

Some of the most rich and ambitious people of the world, who live in Silicon Valley, are spending money on a scientific project which is researching for immortality. Silicon Valley is nowadays really difficult to control, but in the future, it will be impossible. Only the most rich part of the population would be able to pay and collaborate to get access to immortality and that would obviously create a new social class. The immortals. Lots of people would look up to them because, who wouldn’t want to live forever if you are living with all the pleasures you can imagine?

 

Being immortal wouldn’t mean being happier than other people. Although the concept of death would change for the immortals as it wouldn’t be a worry anymore, or at least, less worrying; the immortals would have bad days and experience bad moments like everyone else.

Furthermore, each culture has its own beliefs and its own view about life and this is another reason for which standard people wouldn’t be useless. Not everybody could live forever and without the mortals the immortals wouldn’t be anything.

 

There’s another fact, if less people dies, there will be a big problem of overpopulation. Medicine is progressing continuously, and even mortals will raise its life expectancy. At the end, we’ll have to look for a another planet with possible life conditions because here, in the Earth, we won’t be able to live comfortably.

 

Talking about medicine, we have to think that technology and robots will surely be part of the future medicine. Currently, there are very few robots which are able to do an operation on their own and they are still on trial mode. It’s quite likely that in the future this robots become our everyday surgeons, but every move made by a robot is programmed by a professional surgeon who knows the theory really well but in the practice isn’t capable of operating as accurately as the robots are. People who are afraid of being killed by a robot mistake, need to know that the robot would always be supervised by a surgeon who could take part in the operation at any time and who surely would never be indifferent by our death. However, if the robot made a big mistake and the person was accidentally killed, the insurance would definitely cry when they had to pay the expense.

 

Inside of the medicine, there’s another topic, digital inserted complements. Nowadays, the palette of this kind of complements isn’t so large as the palette there will be in the next years. But we can only affirm the present, and now there are devices that can be inserted into us (most of them with medical and therapeutic purposes) and disintegrate when their work is done. In addition, there are many external devices like intelligent bracelets and clocks that, for instance, can monitor the pulse without any effect or consequence in the body.

 

It seems the incoming future is great, but would life still have sense if robots substitute us? We think so, the only fact that may change would be our comfort, because robots would make easier or even make lots of tasks with more precision than us. Then, humans would stop making lots of things and we could only dedicate our time to robot maintenance, supervising services and art.