X-Message-Number: 20368 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:35:36 -0600 From: "Kansas City Homes - " <> Subject: Future generations blame the ones before :o) References: <> > From: "John de Rivaz" <> An analogous idea is the thought that the ancient Greeks could have made a > cylinder acoustic phonograph (like Thomas Edison) and recorded the voices of > (say) Socrates and Euripides for future generations. As far as I am aware no > ancient Greek thought of it, and their understanding of sound was probably > inadequate for such an invention. However such a device would not have > required an electronics industry, merely a skilled metal worker or > blacksmith. With hindsight we may say "silly people not to have thought of > it". In a future when cryonics is proven to work, people with hindsight may > say that everyone today who doubts it is "silly". I don't think that future generations will think of us or whoever chose not go use cryonics as "silly." They'll just disagree with it and move on. You cannot change the past unless there is a time machine :o) - even then, I am sure, they will be smart enough to recognize that progress has its own pace and it's not what needs to be changed. Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your Real Estate Consultant - Kansas City - RE/MAX Best E-mail: mailto: Web site: http://www.iggy.net Office: 913-894-4024 Toll-free: 877-550-IGGY/4449 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20368