X-Message-Number: 24076
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: I have a fantasy
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 11:33:59 +0100

> Message #24075
> Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 22:21:25 -0700
> From: Olaf Henny <>
> Subject: I have a fantasy
>
>   - I have a phantasy to bring three men back to life, who
> were instrumental in creating the automobile...

But go back 200 years, and you still find people creating automobiles!

http://www.katylon.com/harisauto/c_1st/1st.htm

Go back, in fact to 1673 (using above link)  -- yes they are still there, or
at least an engine is.

A few "lone wolfs" start getting an eccentric interest, and in this case it
is about a quarter of a millennium between initial concept and mass
production.

The principle behind the CD and mobile telephones were first patented in the
1930s. Its inventor actually said that it would never be used for
entertainment. Dr Benz said that only about 2000 people in the world would
be capable of driving a car. In the early days of voice telephony, the
concept was ridiculed because telegraphy professionals suggested that
everyone would require a professional operator in their own homes.

My point here is that people who decry cryonics and say that reanimations
will never be possible need to think in terms of appreciable fractions of
millennia rather than a few decades.

In 1673, who could have considered seriously the uses to which the spark
ignition engine is put today? Impossible, they would have said.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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