The idea of a far-future environment where everyone lives in hermetic purified environments and therefore has no natural resistance to disease and such is something of an SF trope, although I can't point to a specific example.
The idea of a conflict between the evolutionary impulse and the static impulse in humanity is a recurring theme of Gordon Dickson's stuff, although the former always wins.
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Date: Monday, 23 May 2005 07:03 pm (UTC)The idea of a far-future environment where everyone lives in hermetic purified environments and therefore has no natural resistance to disease and such is something of an SF trope, although I can't point to a specific example.
The idea of a conflict between the evolutionary impulse and the static impulse in humanity is a recurring theme of Gordon Dickson's stuff, although the former always wins.