X-Message-Number: 7135
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:07:14 +0100
From: John de Rivaz <>
Subject: Re: Technology

In article: <> 
 writes:
> Also, "technology" today is like saying
> "industry" 150 years ago. An expanding sector indeed, but non the less
> prone to crashes, and other sectors have done very well too.

But technology growth is essential to cryonic revivals. If it isn't there, 
then we won't be there to observe it. 

If in stock market terms technology grows at the expense of other areas, eg 
hospitality and travel, then an overall index with be the total of growth 
and decline, and not do that well. 

Much turnover is at present centred on services, eg Financial Service 
companies have over the past few years been growing at the rate of 
electronics companies. However expanding technology will mean that people 
will be able to perform these services for themselves and the role of the 
intermediary will be reduced. 

Travel, leisure and hospitality cannot benefit that much from technology, 
and in any case personal transport with a much longer range than cars may 
replace many long distance public tranport systems the running of which at 
the moment are a big industrial sector. 

All leisure industry offers people is ways of spending their time, but with 
more and more technolgy getting into private hands, people will go to 
manufacturers rather than services for leisure activities. (ie buy an 
object they can use over and over.) To be competitive, manufacture requires 
technology, and in the limit that we can see nanotechnology make the 
manufacture of anything a printing process, ie make one then you can have 
as many as you like for very little cost.


I say again, technology growth is essential to cryonic revivals. If it 
isn't there, then we won't be there to observe it.

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