[peteradio]

Inevitable entropy increasing is a red-herring in the presence of free-energy, no? What you point out though is very interesting, what would it take to inject energy into conserving this information? And what would its effects actually be? Could you pause aging, reverse it? Now this gets hairy, what happens to society? I dare say not everyone can live forever. What are the consequences of having a select few continuing to live youthfully and reproducing? Can we wind up with a loss of genetic diversity in our species? Entropy strikes again!

[DennisP]

Since urbanized populations have fewer kids, the world is facing a huge demographic crash that will probably last through the rest of the century. So there's plenty of room to apply this technology broadly.

Also plenty of incentive: stock markets won't do well with shrinking populations, and governments will save a lot of money if they don't have to spend as much on treating the expensive diseases of the aged.