X-Message-Number: 15903 From: Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:00:33 EST Subject: Re: From R. Ettinger : > If the future--spike or not--brings "merely" quantitative changes, we can > probably adapt. If some of the changes are qualitative in some profound >sense, it is nearly hopeless to try to anticipate. In fact, it may be worse >than hopeless--it may be counterproductive. Too many people are already >frightened of even a moderately changed life, and would altogether refuse to >face or contemplate major changes. ....(snip) > Robert Ettinger >Cryonics Institute >Immortalist Society > http://www.cryonics.org True, I meet that problem in my familly some day ago! The fear of even the present day technology fuel the fear of what could be comming. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15903