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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:55:49 EDT
Subject: Computer people & cryonics

To repeat my own conjecture about the relative affinity of computer people 
for cryonics:

Computer people are unique, or close to it, in the following combination of 
traits and experience:

1. They are not only logical, but accustomed to putting logic to work, and 
getting extremely reliable results, in their work-a-day world. I don't think 
any other profession can compare in this respect.

2. They are accustomed to rapid advances; break-throughs are the norm and not 
the exception. Miracles are routine. The sky's not the limit.

3. They are generally not hung up on vitalism, and many assume the brain is a 
kind of computer. (I don't agree, but that's another story.) They know it's 
peachy keen to be a machine, because machines can be repaired and improved. 

O course, all this still means only a *relative* degree of cryonics 
inclination, a small shift of the curve, and I don't know of any way to 
translate this "insight" into better marketing. But we do know the wind is at 
our backs in this also, since more and more people speak and practice 
computerese.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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