See, the problem with all of these insane conspiracy theories is: who would want to do that? Why would anyone do that for any reason? Especially considering that, if they went public with the technology, they could make, like, a kajillion dollars.
These people watch too many James Bond movies where the villain wants to destroy the world. I’m always like, “dude, you live on the world!“
That’s easy. The people who would hide this are the very control freaks who have already achieved extreme wealth. They are exactly the type that would want to keep something that powerful strictly for their own use, because becoming the richest, most powerful person on the planet would be inevitable once they are the sole immortal being.
Yeah, but that turns into more of an Altered Carbon situation, where it’s not really a secret, it’s just so expensive only the mega rich can afford it.
Everyone in Altered Carbon gets a stack, in the book they talk about how nobody wants to live that long except the rich people, who are broken inside and no longer human
Never read the book. The show is a bit different. From what I’ve come to understand, it was not an improvement.
Still, though, I think you get my point. The powerful and rich would want to capitalize and profit from this technology. They could keep it to themselves to the elites simply by making it un affordable to anyone else. Keeping it as a secret is counterintuitive to that goal.
See, the problem with all of these insane conspiracy theories is: who would want to do that? Why would anyone do that for any reason? Especially considering that, if they went public with the technology, they could make, like, a kajillion dollars.
These people watch too many James Bond movies where the villain wants to destroy the world. I’m always like, “dude, you live on the world!“
That’s easy. The people who would hide this are the very control freaks who have already achieved extreme wealth. They are exactly the type that would want to keep something that powerful strictly for their own use, because becoming the richest, most powerful person on the planet would be inevitable once they are the sole immortal being.
Yeah, but that turns into more of an Altered Carbon situation, where it’s not really a secret, it’s just so expensive only the mega rich can afford it.
Everyone in Altered Carbon gets a stack, in the book they talk about how nobody wants to live that long except the rich people, who are broken inside and no longer human
Never read the book. The show is a bit different. From what I’ve come to understand, it was not an improvement.
Still, though, I think you get my point. The powerful and rich would want to capitalize and profit from this technology. They could keep it to themselves to the elites simply by making it un affordable to anyone else. Keeping it as a secret is counterintuitive to that goal.