In response to an article in the March 22, 2025 edition of The Economist, "Cyborgs, superhumans and cranks," about efforts to create a superhuman who might live forever, I wrote the following letter that was published in the April 12th edition:
Wanting to be superhuman is the peak of arrogance. What if Stalin did not die and remained in power for ever? Or J. Edgar Hoover? If the old did not die their ideas and way of life would govern us for ever. We would today be living as people did millennia ago. No, for the sake of humanity, it is best that the old die off (including me, but not yet), so the young can bring about change.
Dr John Hodge
Boston
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