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!

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