{"id":207,"date":"2011-07-03T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:26:43","slug":"wonder-if-heinlein-may-have-been-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/03\/wonder-if-heinlein-may-have-been-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder if Heinlein may have been right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noticed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/172951\/20110701\/rapamycin-progeria-aging.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> about a drug that shows promise in treating Progeria .<\/p>\n<p>The natural evolution of this discovery is that it becomes an anti-agathic.<\/p>\n<p>Since Progeria is a relatively rare disease, one wonders if the drug&nbsp; or other discoveries due to the research will become a rejuvenation treatment reserved for the wealthy elite and powerful of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Those who can afford the treatment live 250 years or more. The poor live normal lifespans.<\/p>\n<p>The class \/ caste systems take on WHOLE new meanings don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p>You have the Lazarus class and the normal class.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when the normal class decides that they don\u2019t want to die either?<\/p>\n<p>Will the rich and famous be as liberal about making the rejuvenation treatments available to everyone, as they are about universal health care, welfare, internet, cable TV, etc?<\/p>\n<p>Or will the elite finally admit that perhaps access to various programs is dependent on a persons contribution to society?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder just how close to reality Heinlein may have been. We may live long enough to find out\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noticed this article about a drug that shows promise in treating Progeria . The natural evolution of this discovery is that it becomes an anti-agathic. Since Progeria is a relatively rare disease, one wonders if the drug&nbsp; or other discoveries due to the research will become a rejuvenation treatment reserved for the wealthy elite and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/03\/wonder-if-heinlein-may-have-been-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wonder if Heinlein may have been right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10495,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}