Man, I hope not. At least not until cars drive themselves. We've already got problems with cell phones and i-stuff.
Scientists are working on taking dead hearts and reanimating them, working on animals so far, but you know the intended beneficiaries are human. That’s just what we need on this planet at this time – people who live even longer.
Maybe it’s too early to be concerned, as we still haven’t broken through cryology obstacles (as far as I know). James Lovelock, whom we might call the father of cryobiology, began another sort of reanimation experimentation just after WWII – long-term freezing and subsequent thawing of living creatures – poor hamsters.
He also coined the Gaia theory.
Gaia theory proposes the existence of a system of complex feedback mechanisms that work across the whole of the Earth’s surface; these involve both living and non-living parts of the biosphere which act to keep the chemistry and temperature of the planetary surface comfortable for life. In some important respects this entire system could be considered as akin to ‘living’ itself.[...]
To this day Gaia theory is still far from being universally accepted among the scientific community. Although Lovelock was careful to stress that his theory wasn't suggesting that the Earth was actually alive– only that the Earth system mimics a living, self-regulating entity in some ways– many scientists struggled with the analogy. For a start the Earth doesn’t eat or move purposefully, and it has never displayed any discernible interest in mating with neighbouring planets.
Fer crissakes, she’s old! One does lose drive.
Or maybe she was just born wise.
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