>In the future of space, advances in medical technology bring

>>49293854
I think mandatory birth control definitely becomes a thing. Otherwise not much. When you're 149 life will have appeared to have flown by just as fast as it does to someone facing death at 79 today.

>>49293854
>>49293854
Retirement goes out the window, the generational gap produces a new class system where, the "older" generations are all retired and have been living off their pensions for 50 years or more, the poorest members of society are just ten years their junior, with no pension to fall back on and bodies that are too frail to benefit from rejuvenation treatments, they only live to be 110 or so but look much older than their upper class counterparts.
Meanwhile the younger generations have migrated to a post scarcity society, with their basic needs met by automated production, and long lives to plan for, the primary industry has become the creation of wealth through interest and long term investment. Imagine Wall Street douchbags but slowed down massively.

>>49293854
I suggest reading The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn, by Isaac Asimov, that considers such societies. Plus they're good books.

>>49293854

Incumbancy will be more of a thing. The old guards of Academia who've studied their craft for well over a century and won't be buggered by some upstart who think's he's come up with some new theory you yourself have thought and forgetten about.

Industrial leaders who helm their companies, bored with any and everything else having either thourghly ingrained or have grown weary of the vices one of their station would normally partake in

"Going to do blow and get in the Orgy are we? Well, have fun with that."

Basically it'll take longer for old ideas to die with the people who've made them.

>>49293854
Well, assuming most of the world/space nation ends up well educated and middle class-ish, birth rates fall off to non-replacement levels. So ultimately it kinda balances out.

>>49293900
>I think mandatory birth control definitely becomes a thing
It's the future of space, though. You can just move.

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>>49293854
>What happens to society? What implications does this have? Does the age of adulthood rise?
OP, you should check out out a GURPS setting called Transhuman Space.

tl;dr the rich rapidly outpace the ability of everyone else to catch up, because no one being born can hope to compete with people who have been accruing wealth for 100+ years, and without the limiting factor of mortality, they will never be eclipsed

>>49293854

everyone gets realy bored, things like meditation, yoga and psychedelics become major, loads of people turn into mystics and ascetes, for others suicide watch becomes a actual serious thing, anything genuinely new or youthfull becomes prized above all else

>>49294097

to where tho?

People become Apple fanboys until their 40s when they midlife crisis into fantasy football, it's horrible

>>49294366
Other planets, I presume.

>>49293854
More geriatric fucking than otherwise.

>>49294097
Regardless of how well and quickly we create spacefaring infrastructure, uncontrolled population growth will outstrip it. Face it, in the future reproduction will be a privilege, not a right.

>>49294692
>Face it, in the future reproduction will be a privilege, not a right.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change

>>49294353
I'd think suicide watch would be nothing. Once you've made it to above a certain age and decided "Yeah I've had enough of life" I don't see why anyone should stop you. Suicide would stop being a taboo except for the young and misguided or those suffering from mental issues.

>>49294692
It'd be next to impossible to enforce and spits in the face of equality. The media may be able to convince people that only having 1 kid is virtuous and helps humanity but a government isn't going to be able to enforce a law without backlash. We all know it fucked up China in the long run.

>>49293854
It depends on if medical technology can also slow the rate of physical decay in addition to just keeping people alive longer. If the futures 80 year olds are physically equivalent to today's 40 year olds then society should look similar to what it is now. The real problem would be >>49294029. Most of the time societal change is caused by the old generation dying off and being replaced by new blood with different ideas and perspectives. If people live longer then that process will slow down. Currently the people in charge are from the generation born 40-60 years ago, and the youngest generation has about 30-40 years before it gets the reins of power and about 50-60 before it is considered "the old guard". On your timescale it would take almost a century before a new generation would be able to gain the power and influence to be able to change things without opposition from those older than them. I have no idea how this would affect things though. After all modern humans have had a similar doubling of life expectancy from what it was earlier in our history.

>>49294097
He just wants people getting abortions regardless of necessity so his idol, Moloch, can be satisfied.

>>49293854
Actually, current medical technology could do that.
However, it is prohibitively expensive to continue fabricating organs and many nations make such research illegal, for a plethora of reasons.
Society continues forward.
Slowly.
The previous mentions of incumbancy are likely very accurate.
Class division grows between the long lived and the poor.
Age of adulthood stays static... At first.
The minimum age to hold office slowly climbs, however. Voting and vice consumption are kept easy, this keeps the masses content.

The age of childhood increases until the 20's because they don't have the sense of restraint deemed necessary for adulthood. The more intelligent the human race becomes as a whole the longer it takes for the next generation to learn what the older ones have discovered. Higher education lasts until 40 because of the sheer amount of knowledge there is to learn, but it can't all be taught at once so interspersed in that period are years off and years of mandatory paid internships because the best way to learn is through experience. Those people would not be able to support children because there is no longer work for unskilled workers.
With developing AI's and Robots, there rises a class of people formerly called the working class. They will be known as the useless class. There will always be jobs for unskilled workers in fields where robots have not been built, but there will be so very few of those jobs. Either birth control will be mandatory, so as to decrease the human population by enough to support itself, or we will have to build some sort of system where the lowest classes have a baseline where they can live, but more intelligence and better work can get you better living conditions.

Possible Setting:
Retirement will be a myth, your goal in life will be to earn enough money that you can live on the interest. Either this will be possible in which case we become a race of leisure, with little work after 70 or so. Or it will not be possible and there will be bloody revolutions. Where the unarmed poor rise up against the rich who at this point will all have inherited their money. The poor will lose horrifically because the rich have every advantage, and we become a race of leisure as the poor start to die off. The theme of course is futility. Humanity will always end up as a race of leisure.