X-Message-Number: 21103 From: Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:59:51 EST Subject: Re: progress direction --part1_104.26f1846d.2b77aac7_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Thomas Donaldson: > Incidentally, spintronics and the other technologies you mention > are specifically of interest to NONcryonicists and NONimmortalists > as ways to make smaller circuits, and thus pack more power into > less energy (a paradox)! And less size. > Interesting remark, indeed big money goes to R&D area not of major interest for cryonics and life extension. In this century, progress seems to go mostly to the 4th electronics generation. This will bring some quantitative progress, including in biological instrumentation but not in the most effective domain for cryonics. I think it is false to see *the* progress as a straight road we walk or run on. Potential progress is a multidimensional space and the track followed in it can quite miss large domains. The 20th century story tells us that: What about airships? flywheel powered cars experimented in the 30's in Africa? Space travel? large hovercraft? Air cushion trains? superconducing electric storage? Relief TV?... When you look at what has been done and what could have been, it is a plain evidence that very few of the possible are effectively built in the real world. So, it must be not a surprise if cryonics related progress is indefinitely let to decay on the road side. You can't simply talk about how much time it will take to have this or that. The best probability is that this time will be infinite, even if the thing could be done right now. That is why I think *my solution* will come first or even alone: Because I put money in it to do the research even if nobody else is interested. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_104.26f1846d.2b77aac7_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21103