You SEE sometime in years yet seen science will make our bodies last longer a decade or more but questionable advances will allow our BRAINS to live for…millennia or longer submerged in a neuro-friendly elixir connected to electric eyes and ears freed from frothing fears about our body’s dutiful decay BUT even with infinite leaps in scientific skill and our relentless will (to be around for eternity) only a few will have the means ($$$$$) for such magic cyber machines and joyful juices to keep them THINKing 10,000 years or more! So, the powers that be will have a grand lottery though millions will apply (while 10 billion others know their own brains will die) only a few thousand will have the privilege of having their few pounds of cranial fat placed in a perpetually guarded vat for helpless these brains would be (!) if they were left at the mercy of those who could not pay to extend their time to play on this rolling rock What things they will get to see floating in the magic juice (!!) But…walks in the park will be only a waking dream, thinking about cheeseburgers will be calorie free, for the sense of smell and taste will, of course, be history music will sound a bit…strange for the best implants won’t replace the old ear a passionate kiss and the a n t i c i p a t e d bliss of more will be a sweet (??) memory a “sweet” memory…? Or just a memory for when freed of the flesh can sense and soul still mesh? Can THINKing we are FEELing suffice? and will we really savor the cyber sight or cringe in FRIGHT of round spaghetti ***** floating in other preciously guarded vats that we KNOW are our only bodiless friends?
written for fun in 2011, but one of the readers said it was frightening...all in the eye of the beholder I suspect