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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I mentioned "elites" in my original post. That kind of tech wouldn't be made available to anyone in the middle class or lower, at least from the start. So you would likely only be looking at a small portion of the population that would be living "forever". Those with more education also tend to reproduce less so I wouldn't expect a huge population explosion but that could become an issue maybe a couple hundred years after inception.
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If my wife and I cloned back into our 18 year-old bodies, I wonder if we would have kids the next time around. I suspect that most of the transcloners wouldn't reproduce. They'd just be extra mouths to feed forever, as kind of a fixed cost in the food equation.