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

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