Calico: A Villain's Dream

Google announces Calico: immortality though big data. This news makes Winifred Sanderson very happy. Many villains in our good old fashioned melodramas have a large fixation on death, or rather the lack thereof. I am not saying Larry Page is a villain (maybe a little), but I am saying we should stop and think if this pursuit of immortality is indeed a welcomed trait. Overpopulation already threatens this ever shrinking planet. We often find ourselves exhausting natural resources, or polluting perfectly good ones. Advancements in agricultural technology gives us an abundance of food and energy. So what do we do? We supersize. We overeat. We overfish. More. More. More. Now imagine a world where people just won't die. This problem provides us a very ironic dilemma. The only way to sustain life on this world if we never die is to simply stop new life, and for people who fail to suppress the instinct to pack on the pounds, we will certainly fail to suppress the instinct to reproduce.