X-Message-Number: 30481
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Cryonauts' expiration date?
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:08:54 -0800

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but the Guardian article,

Patients who are frozen in time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/14/research.cryonics/print

quotes Tanya Jones as saying:


>Given the current rate of medical progress and research into nanotechnology, 
says Jones: "If we haven't done it in 100 years, it's not going to work."


I guess that means cryonics organizations no longer plan to keep patients in 
suspension for multiple centuries, if necessary, until somebody can figure out 
how to revive us. Have the leaders in the cryonics movement adopted part of the 
limits-to-progress thesis that seems to explain our relatively unfuturistic 21st
Century? 


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and 
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence 
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).

Mark Plus

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