A world with less senescence and fewer children
Marc Roux
Association Française Transhumaniste - Technoprog, France
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
One of the criticisms that are often challenged to answer the longevistist and transhumanist movements is that of blaming as irresponsible, the prospect of life in good health radically extended should lead to an overpopulation crisis. I leave to others to answer this irrational fear.
For my part, as a prospectivist, that is another concern that haunts me. I wonder for years what will happen in a society where children would become even much more rare than today.
I will argue to show that not only the part of young people in our population has been declining for two centuries, not only this movement tends to spread throughout the world, but also that it is still continuing in societies more developed.
I therefore propose to try to understand why, according to sociological, economic and psychological factors, it seems likely that the place of youth and children will continue to decrease dramatically in the coming decades.
Then I will issue various hypotheses to try to anticipate what could be the negative and positive consequences of a scarcity of young -in age- people and childhood.
Marc Roux
Association Française Transhumaniste - Technoprog, France
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
One of the criticisms that are often challenged to answer the longevistist and transhumanist movements is that of blaming as irresponsible, the prospect of life in good health radically extended should lead to an overpopulation crisis. I leave to others to answer this irrational fear.
For my part, as a prospectivist, that is another concern that haunts me. I wonder for years what will happen in a society where children would become even much more rare than today.
I will argue to show that not only the part of young people in our population has been declining for two centuries, not only this movement tends to spread throughout the world, but also that it is still continuing in societies more developed.
I therefore propose to try to understand why, according to sociological, economic and psychological factors, it seems likely that the place of youth and children will continue to decrease dramatically in the coming decades.
Then I will issue various hypotheses to try to anticipate what could be the negative and positive consequences of a scarcity of young -in age- people and childhood.
