Book: The last tower of Troy

Scientific progress in biology and medicine continues. Anyone ahead of fifty, seventy, a hundred years of life, I am sure that during this time there will be new development and will ensure the renewal of existence beyond calculated today. Will grow there, far away, just a few decades, or the period of earthly existence will increase abruptly several times - the mood does not matter.

We caught up with the trees: ordinary pine lives for four hundred years, and the Sequoia - two thousand. But psychology is stronger than arithmetic. Having, albeit small, extension of its natural life, we crossed a psychological threshold.

But as weird as we quietly crept in the days of the immortal! Doctors say that the average life expectancy has increased only half as much as a hundred and forty, hundred and fifty. A tiny increment on a cosmic scale, tiny even by the standards of earthly nature.

I like to look at this picture: the chain of lights along the quays, chains of lights on the bridges; there are also highlighted the Peter and Paul fortress, the stock Exchange, Rostral columns, reflected in the mirror-black river. It seems to me that the old white bulbs lamps white searchlight radiance is much more beautiful than the current multi-colored light bar. I sometimes think that I myself - a man of the last century.

Everyone earns his bread in his own way, and we are all woven into one ball. In the current era, when genetic medicine has made us whether polyestertape, or quite immortal, when no one really knows how much he actually years and how much is left ahead of us from each other can not escape.

But the hotel is not a home. And I always feel that my real home office.

Once I remember myself in old age is continuously measured life and measured not by the number of years lived, and the prospect that he has left.