X-Message-Number: 9881 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:22:37 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #9841 - #9848 Hi everyone! To Saul: What about 2100? What about 2200? What about 2300? I cannot believe that reanimation, even from today's methods, will be expensive into the indefinite future (given that reanimation of an individual patient is possible at all). We do not face a single Future which will remain unchanged ever after. Look at what has happened in the last 60 years of history alone: television, jet airplanes, computers, moon landings, antibiotics, vaccinations against many diseases thought to be scourges, so many things. And that is ONLY 60 YEARS. 60 years ago people were much more worried by pneumonia than they were by either cancer or heart disease. And large numbers of AMERICANS lived in conditions we now associate with underdeveloped countries. And by the way, many of these developments were not only unforeseen as coming so soon, but large numbers of people thought of them as impossible. As a cryonicist I will put down a bet with Saul Kent: I bet that in 300 years revival of anyone suspendd now will be totally automated, and the machines doing it can be constructed by any teenager just out of the equivalent of high school, from materials easily accessible for a pittance to anyone. Lets see what I can bet: an all expense paid trip to Mars as a tourist, say. And if these things turn out to also be trivially inexpensive, then fine. We do not face a single Future but almost an infinity of futures, perhaps even an infinity of futures, all different from one another and many with devices, ideas, and civilizatins which we cannot come clo imagining. Best to all, and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9881