Supercentinarians and society

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How would people who live for centuries be able to deal with outliving everyone each generation in which most live for only a few decades. Personally, a disconnect from everyone would seem most logical. Trying not to feel attached to anyone or anything as everything and everyone falls apart around them. However, having my father die when I was 13 and my mother die when I was 25 and seeing pets die throughout my life I know it is possible to overcome grief even so. The majority of people around oneself do not really matter as much as the ones one cares about, so if losing the ones one cares about is possible then it is also quite possible to live around the constant death of those one does not know to care about.

My dad's lost all eight of his brothers and sisters. I think politics ends up being his replacement of focus.

I figure everyone would be different on this. Some would see the swell of social and cultural evolution as more than what they'd want to bother keeping up with; some people would just withdraw, keep to whatever majority silvercap diners they could find for their 5 or 6 AM coffee with the other retirees, others would be full time philanthropists, full-time tourists, full-time hobbyists; I'm sure personality has everything to do with the outcome (barring any strange government or societal mandates or developments).

Over the course of centuries such people would probably change their interests a fair bit. For a few decades they could be fixated on studying physics, and for a few more decades on the study of languages, yet more on the study of metallurgy, and whatever else they decide is interesting to them. They could study any academic subject at their leisure and learn immensely more with their time than people who narrowly focus upon a single subject and learn only to regurgitate what they are told in the precise formatting required at whatever time of day it happens to be then. Traveling throughout the world and seeing the oceans, and soon to travel the solar system also, it would be awesome.

We'd have to work on human memory or people would at a minimum have to type their own thoughts down often into journals. Otherwise, I don't think the brain could hold it all and I'm sure every five or ten years as a person got good at a new talent they'd start going back from advanced to beginner on something else. Three pounds just doesn't seem like its a convenient or ample amount anymore.

nah, by the time we can live longer than our brain can encompass we would probably be able to digitize the entire brain, that in tiself might be the form of unlimited age extension.

MIT predict they will be able to digitize a human brain by 2050(as i recall) and the advances in physical neural networking where you directly emulate the flow of ions in the brain with electrons in a chip means we will probably have the affordable computing power to feasibly do so.

even the interface is well underway, there are experiments using lasers to stimulate neurons directly(using light sensitive receptors from algae no less) in rats, currently quite simple but within the next few years they will have implanted a multi target system(now they can only target one area of the brain)
as for reading them, take a look at emotiv, it will already let you control your pc simply by thinking.