X-Message-Number: 32622 Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:53:44 -0700 Subject: Technological inevitabilism From: MARK PLUS <> I've noticed from observing BP's problem that it sounds almost like the reverse of cryonics' problem. Everyone starts out assuming that someone will come up with a technological solution to the Deepwater Horizon crisis in a timely fashion, even if nothing tried "yet" has fully succeeded. In fact, they've gotten rather insistent that someone does find and implement this solution immediately. Despite the ongoing failures, we haven't reached the point of dismissing these efforts as "false hope," "denial" or "techno-utopian speculation," terms I've heard applied to cryonics. In other words, when a sufficiently dire emergency back us to the wall, people discover they believe in the inevitability of a technology way to protect them even if recent evidence doesn't support such a belief. Who therefore has the defective outlook on technological progress, cryonicists, or believers in the Deepwater Horizon Solution? -- Mark Plus Life is short: Freeze hard! Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32622