X-Message-Number: 12403
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Migration barriers and cryonic revivals
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:34:44 +0100

I have been receiving private emails expressing concerns about the location
of cryopreservation facilities, and have therefore written this article for
a more open debate:

I predict that by the time people are revived international barriers will
have fallen and it will all be one planet.

Concerns about nationality, race and locality will have gone by the time
cryonic revivals take place. The concept of immigration controls, work
permits, visas, passports and so on will have gone the way of slavery,
conscription, taxation and other outmoded economic systems.

There is a model in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. I don't think
things are that bad in the old west Germany now.

You can also consider the liberalisation of the telephone industry. At one
time all telephones were owned by monopolies and customers could only rent
their "apparatus", often at a rental equivalent to buying a new phone every
year. It was stated by those that run the companies, usually owned by
governments, that if people were allowed their own phones, and to connect
things like answering machines or modems to the world's telephone system,
the system would collapse into anarchy.

Of course this was all nonsense designed to keep many professionals in cushy
jobs.

The fact is that people are sufficiently diverse to want to live in
different places. A lot of people are quite happy where they are and, unless
driven out by authoritarians trying to move people about the world like
chess pieces, (racial or national cleansing) they will stay there.

The most democratic instrument you have is your money - spend it and you
support whoever you are spending it with. This is true regardless of whether
you have $1 or a million, but obviously the more you have the more you can
influence the world. If there was a global buyers strike of travel for say a
month in protest against migration controls, the I am sure the governments
of the world would take notice - travel is one of their biggest money
earners.

Now that is seen as a lunatic idea I am sure. But I do predict that global
barriers, like the Berlin Wall will eventually fall. Look at a picture of
the Earth taken from the moon, and you will see how stupid they are.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, my singles club for
people in Cornwall, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other
projects:       http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohndeR

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