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SciFi Idea: What do you think about very long lifespans?
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[QUOTE="jedishrfu, post: 6204206, member: 376845"] Well, you could arbitrarily add a govt imposed time limit to memory so that some people can remember over longer terms than others. Someone could hack the system and remove the time limit restriction. There's a lot you can do here if you apply human deceit, cunning and thirst for power. Then there's living millions of years meaning you'd have more scraps with death, new illnesses, potential for geologic or extraterrestrial events... Basically there's always a weakness somewhere and you can bring it out in your stories. What's that quote from the Time Machine movie: He had all the time in the world. What would you do? Asimov did something along these lines with his robot character R Daneel Olivaw where he eventually used him to tie all his various trilogies together into a Foundation Super Cluster (my term). R Daneel bacame the leader of humanity but led in the background. He continually upgraded his capabilities over time. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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