Postmortal Man | New Space Economy

Infographic explains eight possible social, psychological, technological, political, and medical risks of greatly extended human lifespans and lists five safeguards: consent, fairness, privacy, oversight, and accountability.

THE RISKS OF BECOMING POSTMORTAL

A conceptual human figure is divided between an anatomical body and a blue digitally networked body, with surrounding symbols representing time, identity, ethics, computing, cognition, and a settlement beyond Earth.

Infographic summarizes six areas related to human longevity and digital personhood, describing their research status and applications while noting that consciousness transfer beyond biological death has not been demonstrated.

THE TECHNOLOGIES BEHIND POSTMORTAL HUMANITY

Infographic compares groups likely to gain early access to hypothetical life-extension and identity-preservation technologies with groups likely to face barriers, then outlines four access factors and related policy questions.

WHO WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO POSTMORTALITY?

Infographic presents six hypothetical scenarios for extended human lifespans in space, covering deep-space exploration, generation ships, lunar and Martian settlements, governance, knowledge continuity, and long-duration missions, with listed benefits and risks.

POSTMORTAL MAN AND THE FUTURE OF SPACE SETTLEMENT

Infographic outlining a progression from current approaches to longer, healthier lives—including prevention, regenerative medicine, and replacement organs—to speculative concepts involving brain-computer interfaces, digital memory storage, and hypothetical mind emulation.

FROM LONGEVITY TO POSTMORTALITY

Infographic describes seven possible future opportunity areas tied to longer lives and human continuity, with values and open questions concerning access, ethics, privacy, ownership, fairness, motivation, and governance.

THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OF POSTMORTAL MAN

Infographic explaining how substantially longer lifespans could affect work and retirement, education, housing and resources, politics and leadership, family and generations, and wealth transfer, with a stated opportunity and pressure for each topic.

THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF EXTREMELY LONG LIVES

Infographic presenting social and ethical scenarios associated with extended life. A central balance scale contrasts possible benefits and possible strains. Six surrounding sections discuss changing mourning, family structure, the meaning of a lifetime, inheritance and wealth, religion and ritual, and population pressure. Additional points address time and choice, continuous learning, deeper connections, inequality, resource limits, and psychological load.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO DEATH?

Infographic comparing biological survival, psychological continuity, and digital replication. Four rows address memory, consciousness, identity, and legal personhood. A continuum moves from an original biological person through partial or degraded continuity to a digital replica, with a note that no demonstrated technology can upload human consciousness.

COULD A DIGITAL COPY STILL BE YOU?