Even if there is a breakthrough in biotech that allows us to re-engineer our bodies or "upload" our minds into some durable system, it's too late for people who are alive today. The simple reason is economics: it would be decades before any of these would be available for common citizens. Bill Gates and Ray Ellison might be able to afford it, but not Joe Blow or Jane Doe on the street.
So we must content ourselves with the mundane, and take some comfort of the fact that we at least contributed a little bit to what our children's children may someday have as their future.
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