X-Message-Number: 19044 Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 08:03:17 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #19038 - #19043 Hi everyone! Science fiction writers and fans may be interesting to cryonicists from another angle, too. The point is, it's simply not enough to come up with some highly general explanation for why people don't take it up... such as ideas about memes. A good explanation should also tell us why some groups (computer programmers) are much more favorable than others (sci fi fans and authors). We do have to be careful here, though. As a group, sci fi fans and writers probably make less on average than computer programmers, so to some extent their decision not to sign up may come simply from economics. I doubt that economics gives anything like a complete explanation, but any good study would try to exclude such factors from consideration ... perhaps by studying only those sci fi fans and authors who make, on average, as much as computer programmers, for instance. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19044