Friends Come in Boxes Author:Michael G. Coney The problem of immortality was solved in the 21st century; it was a matter of successful brain transference. When you reached forty, your brain was removed and transferred into the head of a six-month-old infant. In that way you could get another forty years of life, then do it all over again. — All you had to do was obey the laws and make no tro... more »uble. It also solved the population problem, for who would want to have a baby that would soon become a total adult stranger mentally?
So there was a growing waiting period between transfers, and in the interim the disembodied brains were conscious in special boxes known as (chuckle) friendship boxes.« less