Playing God

In part five of the Immortality: A User's Guide series—thinking through the societal consequences of radical life extension.

In the previous installment of this series on radical life extension, I discussed the potential impact on population growth that might result from us pushing past the Calment boundary. It seems, at first glance, undeniable that “curing” death would lead to a world with more and more humans in it, right at the point at which global population seems to be…