User talk:Shultz the Editor/Dechronification (test edits)

Dechronification is the concept developed by Robert Freitas that, with nanotechnology, one should be able to reverse the aging process. Freitas suggests that people will be able to "remove accumulating metabolic toxins using resperocyte- and microbivore-class intercellular nanorobots in every tissue cell," "correct genetic damage using chromosome replacement therapy in every tissue cell," and "repair persistent cellular damage using cell repair devices in every tissue cell." This idea is a form of futurology.

Benefits

 * Old senior folk longing to become young again will finally realize their dreams.


 * Developmentally delayed children can keep repeating their grade level in school while looking the part (as old as the other children in their class) until they advance.


 * Developmentally delayed adults can dechronify to children and repeat school in hopes of becoming much more productive and successful in life via this newly-invented second chance.
 * (Who will work at McDonald's, you might ask? Sentient, robotic androids will soon perform all menial jobs.)


 * Rescuers needing to retrieve a child in, for example, a hole only big enough for a small kid to fit through, can dechronify themselves down like so and perform the rescue. Afterwards, they rechronify back to an adult.
 * However, small rescue robots may preclude the need for rescuer dechronification.


 * Professional child and teenaged movie actors will not be forced to grow out of their roles anymore.
 * In fact, there may not be a need to hire child actors anymore because professional adult actors could play child parts once they go through a "dechronitron."


 * Dechronification will preclude the possibility of a Luddite Revolution from happening due to sentient, robotic androids taking lower-skilled jobs.
 * This is because Dechronification will make way for anyone with lower skills to revert to a younger age, repeat school and hence, retrain for more sophisticated, better-paying jobs that androids couldn't do.

Potential Issues and/or Obstacles

 * How well can "dechronitrons" work? If a user types in a setting to dechronify to a 10-year-old, will it also reduce their height, or will their height remain the same, thus result in an apparent child with acromegaly?


 * How difficult, in general, is dechronifying to children, and especially ones who at the chosen age to dechronify to, would usually be shorter than the user is otherwise?


 * How may a "dechronitron" change the user's height?


 * If "dechronitrons" are bulky at first, hence only installed in public venues, there may be a clothing size issue - will clothes shrink along with the user, or remain the same size, thus causing the user's clothes to suddenly become loose?

Possible Concerns

 * This will be a pedophile's wet dream; they often fantasize being a boy the same age as the girl they desire to make love to, and sometimes have desires overwhelming enough to act on it.
 * Once shower-sized dechronitrons start getting sold in every hardware store in the country, how can we tell a kid apart from a dechronified pedophile acting out his wettest dreams?
 * A girl wouldn't be scared of a relationship proposal by a boy the same age, as she would be by a man as old as her father would be. Also, since many pedophiles have a LOT of grooming experience, he'll have a very easy time manipulating her into a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, and eventually sexual relations!
 * Also, adults usually have a lot more money, and a girl can easily get bribed by gifts, etc.
 * If the girl visits his house, and the pedophile, having rechronified back to an adult earlier that day, answers the door, he could just say that he's his father and that his son will be back from soccer practice soon.

Possible Solutions, Workarounds, and Counter-Solutions

 * The solution will probably be for hardware stores to run background checks on customers who purchase dechronitrons, and not allow those with a history of sex crimes to purchase them, or set law-sanctioned limits on it so they cannot dechronify to below the age of 18.


 * However, there are many who like to have sexual relations with children but have never acted on it, and wouldn't unless they were children themselves, so a background check may not be entirely useful.
 * Thus, each dechronitron may have to be registered so that the Government keeps track of them like they keep track of guns.


 * What will stop those with a history of sex crimes from simply using a friend's dechronitron?
 * Perhaps dechronitrons will require any and all users to press a button that reads fingerprints, in order to activate the device. Once the fingerprint is read, it'll contact a background check agency and ensure the user is cleared to dechronify to the specified age.
 * Someone with barred or limited access to dechronitrons might make a plaster mold (or any other type of mold) of someone else's hand, and use the fingers of it to dechronify to their heart's desire.


 * What will stop them from traveling to another country to dechronify there, as those other countries have no records of that user?
 * Also, anyone from any other country can make fake credentials to say that he's a real, original kid for when he returns to his home country.