Zombies

After reading this article from the New York Times by Maria Konnikova I couldn't help but wonder in the consequences from our lack of sleep. She states that if we continue not sleeping eventually we will prone to degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. However, this is our short-term effect. So I wonsee what will happen if we keep increasing our lack of sleep? What will happen to our bodies in the future if we keep avoiding sleeping? As I imagine the answers to this questions, I can't help but think on zombies. I think It would be quite possible to become a kind of  zombies. 

If you really think about it, it wouldn't be so hard. Without sleep we fall into a sort trance or hypnotic state. We wake up, shower and go to work or to school, come back and sleep. Without caffeine we are like zombies. We work, eat and sleep mechanically. Our sleep depravation leads us to this, and if according to this article we are more prone to become sick at an earlier age, in a matter of time we would be un such a state of depravation and sickness we would be acting like zombies.  Don't take me wrong, or think I'm mocking this article. We might exist as a type of zombies we have never thought of. We wouldn't be the flesh eaters, or the still living super decomposed humans. Gangrene exists, and we might become the sleep deprived, mechanical gangrened humans. It would be a different kind of life. A life of no sleep, where being  sick  and deprived would be the new cool. Just think about it, we are just a step behind. 

Sleep is essential, and the world will keep moving even if we don't. If you think about it, the world doesn't stop while your sleeping, or even when you're dead. The stocks change everyday, the economy is constantly moving just as politics is changing everyday too. There will come a point in which we all fall into this zombie induced state due to sleep depravation. It's a horrid future. Our only choice, or basically alternative is to either sleep more or find a cure to this dreadful future that awaits us.