On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Soren Smith wrote:

Also, what if CT is *not* stagnant?  If their society continues to 
evolve, would not the oldest inhabitants eventually become out-of 
-touch?  After all, how many of you have grandparents who can program a 
VCR, or surf the Web?  Imagine what it would be like to be around trying 
to deal with the technology that was created fifteen generations after 
you were born....

Yep.
Imagine poor Gutenburg trying to cope with a modern printing press :)
 

One last question:  Since the inhabitants of CT seem to reproduce and 
achieve maturity before the age-lock kicks in, wouldn't that mean that 
there would eventually be a bit of a population problem?  Historically, 
overpopluation can only be corrected by:  Famine, plague, 
expansion/colonization (not that this leads to war), or massive 
executions.  In short--the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. 

Depends on how much of the world's population survived to that point.
Immortals would not necessarily be as fertile as modern people.  Species
that live longer tend to have fewer children, or at least more slowly.


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        Priss smiled.  "This is Admiral Priscilla S. Asagiri of House
Serenity.  Request permission to help you kick some giant monster
ass.  So did this thing crawl out of your garbage can or what, sis?  It
looks like some leftovers evolved into a new life form."

--Dance of Shiva, Chapter 19.