what do you think about immortality coming?

[abaris]

Likely an expensive gene treatment would be required

Which brings us back to the general problem of all these medical advancements. As opposed to the last century when societies moved in a social direction, advanced medicine is quickly turning into a commodity for the rich and powerful. It would be the same, if something bordering on immortality came to be a reality. I wouldn't want to live in a society like that, since it would look like ancient Sparta. The masters up on the shiny hill, the slaves down in the valley, toiling the fields.

There's also another, very real, aspect. Even if I go with the narrative of everyone being immortal, you can't carry on with the birth rates as they are. The world would become inhabitable within a century or two. So someone would have to make the decision of who's allowed to reproduce.

Sorry, but for all we know about our world and the people running the show, immortality seems like the premisse for a scifi horror novel.