Submitted by Knosis_Mystic t3_zm4q8e in Futurology
What if super life extension, let alone biological immortality isn't achieved within our current lifetime? Would anyone here choose for the next best thing. Being put into a "pod" like system where your biological body out here in the "real" world lives out it's natural 80-120 year old lifespan, but your mind/consciousness lives out 1,000s or even 10,000s of years in Simulated reality like The Matrix or TRON. Time dilation being the major reason for such a long "Simulated" secondary life.