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[CyberMisterBeauty]

Guys,I was reading that post of the blog talking about the decrease of worldwide physical activity and I was thinking if technology could evolve so much that it could make people so sedentary that they would have difficult even to a little run.To be more extreme in the movie Wall-E robots do everything and humans do nothing,they became so sedentary that their bones and muscles became very weak and as humans almost eat all the time they became pretty fat,and they live on antigravity machines unable even to do a little walk.By the way,there is ascene in the movie where the captain of the starship fall from its supporting machine,he tried to stand up but it was so difficult to him that he looked like a baby still learning how to walk...Talking aout babies,the adults of the movies look like oversized babies...

I know this topic seens similar to that I created some months ago,but I'd like your opinion...

If you don't know Wall-E,here is a little part of the movie showing what I'm talking about:






I hope we will never end up like this!!!

[ApexPredator]

Maybe in America


;-P

[kjaggard]

I'm tempted to say "what do you mean will we? More like, how did we?"
Truthfully I have serious doubts that we really understand what is the direct cause of some of what is happening to the body of humans with their modern lifestyle. It actually looks like nutritional lack is in part to do with some of the bloating sizes we see. As are things like hormones and antibiotics also to blame for some of the tissue changes we experiance. (Ask may of the people who depend on those types of drugs for autoimmune diseases, they tend to cause weight gain and bloated features).

Add to that a diet high in caloric value but lacking in things like vitamin D and you get weaker bones and muscles with greater fatigue and irregular tissue inflamation and water retention.

There is a factor of calories burned vs calories consumed, though if those calories were supplying the needed nutrients we might feel satisfied before we over consumed empty calories.

Otherwise if a person consumed only what the body needed in calories and suffered no malnutrition but otherwise didn't move, we end up looking like the human skeleton (or the little aliens commonly called greys... or start gate Asgard). It's called tissue atrophy.

In low gravity you might get a greater central density and start to look more like kermit the frog.

But as we've seen the human body doesn't do well with that sort of thing, and tends to get sicker earlier. So you arn't likely to have a sustainable population growth of people who start to turn into human manitees like that unless you remove a lot more gravity and overfeed them but maintain nutrition without substances that chance immune regulations of tissue swelling.

But there are some very balloon like people around today. Usually with asthma and join problems, increasing levels of IBS and migrains, diabetes risks skyrocketing and heart attacks becoming more common to the point of almost being able to ask anybody over fifty if they've had their first one yet. At that rate if we become an entire species of this sort of thing we will have to start cyborging ourself in our teens to keep ourselves alive and we'd start to look like some kind of cross between jabba the hutt and the borg.

[SG-1]

WHEN THE TECHNOLOGY EXISTS FOR US TO JUST SIT ON OUR ASSES ALL DAY AND GET PAID. THE TECHNOLOGY WILL ALLOW US TO NO SLIM. YOU THINK THE TIMELINE IS SET TIMELINE IS SET IN STONE. READ CURE FOR FATASSES.

THANKS

[eacao]

Before I answer your question, please change your profile picture.

[AccutaneT]

Yes, you are right!

[MoPawnch]

We will never ever end up like that super hippie movie Wall-E.

If technology can cure diseases received from super obesity, it can cure obesity. Humans tend to also get bored. In the movie it shows the humans doing the same thing everyday. They can't possibly talk about the same thing everyday for weeks/months at a time.
Things would have to change in order to have the conversations change as well and that requires some break in your daily routine.

I can see why you would fear for this, if everyone goes fat, you won't have any muscular men to drool over, would you?

[shane_allen]

Before I answer your question, please change your profile picture.

Well played, sir.

I can see why you would fear for this, if everyone goes fat, you won't have any muscular men to drool over, would you?

Too crude.

Anyways, to add my two cents, I agree with SG-1 with the added point that some people may choose to be fat. You know, because tastes change over the years.

Edited by shane_allen, 15 July 2012 - 03:35 AM.

[EVanimations]

I agree with SG-1 with the added point that some people may choose to be fat. You know, because tastes change over the years.

Exactly. If everyone is fat, the vast majority of personal preferences will change to suit this. Fat people wouldn't be called fat, they would be called normal, and thin people would look "sick" and "undesirable" to them as fat people look today.

500 years ago people favored puffy, bloaty, pale women because that meant they had the power and status to stay indoors and stuff their faces with pastries and sugary things. Maybe in a couple decades the same thing could occur (only more extreme) because of the fact that antigravity technology would be a very expensive new technology, and scarcity would make good foods a luxury, thus denoting wealth? At least, until the anti-fat pill becomes practical or even desirable by that point...

Or, as mentioned before, they would be preferred because there would be no other alternative.

In short, nobody would care.

All speculation here.

Also, please change your profile pic. It's just...just change it, please.

Edited by EVanimations, 15 July 2012 - 03:24 PM.

[The End or The Beginnning]

Maybe everyone will be fat, but no one will know because they only meet in VR worlds.

[The Young Homo Maximus]

1- It's a movie intended for all ages (if anyone dare says, "For kids", meet me and my friends in a dark alleyway later on tonight), there's little chance it's going to deconstruct the actual possibilities of what humanity would be like if we had such advanced technology that we wouldn't need to do any physical activities. 

 

2- One of those possibilities is that we don't even have physical bodies anymore

3- Another is that we're all kept in tip top shape by technology, should one so choose

 

It's a matter of controlling hormones, nutrients, etc.

[Matthew]

I'd hope that we would develop some kind of drug to keep us thin...

[Rkw]

Maybe mentally, we're almost there, how often do people sit around and watch drivel on their computers today? 

 

Physically no I don't think so, we've got fatties right now because of laziness and gluttony, we'll eventually develop something that keeps you thin muscular and healthy (And all of a sudden all the fat pride people will change their minds).

Plus Wall-E excluded the possibility of cyborgs and transhumanism.

[CLB]

Wall-E was a bit ridiculous. First they get artificial gravity (without using the easy option of centrifugal force), then they get anti-gravity fitted to ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. Seriously, the only non anti-grav machines on it were Wall-E and his cousins, and the autopilot.

Back to the original question, if it were 2050 and I wasn't filled to the brim with medicinal nanites cutting out fat, I would be sorely disappointed.

Edited by CLB, 15 June 2013 - 07:18 PM.

[Calle]

Maybe in America


;-P

Agreed

 

however we won't reach to that state, i mean they went for 5 years vacation -.- 700 years later

 

we probably the comming Century we will shoot our shit to the sun or other disposal method, and the overweight maybe