Immodest Proposal
April, 2000
What's the scariest aspect of the new century? A special millennial issue of Time magazine suggested the answer when it asked, "Can I Live to Be 125?'' At about the same time, Scientific American speculated that people someday may routinely be able to regenerate lost body parts, undergo radical transplants (of the head, for instance) and dramatically lengthen their life spans. Far-fetched? No, Americans are on a roll. The average life span in 1900 was 47, in 1998 it was 76. The population o...
