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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:23:37 +0800 (CST)
From: =?big5?q?kurt2100kimo?= <>
Subject: promotional venues for cryonics

Targeted prmotional venues for cryonics could include
print media such as Liberty, Reason, The Futurist, and
some of the space magazines. Online venues could
include some of the nanotech/tranhumanist websites as
well as spacedaily.com and space.com (two
space-related websites). Also Zubrin's Mars Society
might be good, too.

For the expats in Japan, I recommend Metropolitan
Tokyo (used to be called tokyoclassified.com). I don't
know the best expat venues for Taiwan, Mainland China,
or S.E. Asia, but these could be found by internet
search.

There are people who fit all four characteristics that
I mentioned in my previous post, but you will find
them among the expats of Asia, maybe in places like
the U.S. Southwest or Portland/Seattle Area. These
seem to be avant-guard or pioneering-like places in
the U.S.

Targeting the rich old people of Florida seems to be
useless to me, because they are either the WWII
generation or the "Eisenhower" generation (came of age
in the '50s) who have traditional/conservative
attitudes towards life and death issue.

Maybe, maybe not, the Boomers will get interested in
cryonics in the next decade. But I would not expect
much interest from the "Great Generation" or the
"Eisenhowers" at all. People like Curtis Henderson and
Saul Kent are the anomalies that prove the rule.

The Boomers are the kind of people who would be
interested in cryonics, but may be too short-term
oriented to do it in time. Also, they seem to be
getting more conservative by the day.

I actually expect the Gen-Xers to be the first people
to take to cryonics in a big way. These people grew up
knowing that nobody gives a shit about them and expect
to do everything on their own. This feeling also
contributes to a vague libertarian-like rebellous
attitude that many of them seem to have. 

At this stage of the game, targeted marketing of niche
markets makes the most sense. Also, these markets are
alot cheaper to penetrate.

Thomas, you're in Australia. What do people in OZ
think about cryonics, and technology in general?

Sincerely,

Kurt Schoedel

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