Just saw the movie In Time with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. Interesting movie.
In the future, genetic alteration has allowed humanity to develop a system where individuals stop aging 25 years after birth. Due to over-population concerns, time has replaced money as the standard currency and people must acquire more time through labor and commercial means after turning 25 years of age, or die within a year. Each social class lives in a different area called a 'Time Zone'. The poor live in the ghettos of Dayton and work each day to earn a few more hours of life, which they must also use to pay for everyday necessities. The rich live in the luxurious New Greenwich, and can live for centuries to millenia based on how much time they have accrued.
Would you want to live forever if you could?
I would not like to live forever. I would miss my family and friends as they pass away. Also I would feel out of place with young people, as I get so old even new things will probably stop seeming new.
ReplyDeleteI would like to life forever, but not under those circumstances. Living forever should not depend on wealth.
ReplyDeleteWow I must see that movie! But living forever might get old :) depending on what you do and who you're with. I would take quality of life over quantity.
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