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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:18:50 EST
Subject: Bridge postng and book reviews

Wow!  Steve Bridge has provided the kind of nuanced and thought  provoking 
post that Cryonet SHOULD and occasionally does promulgate.  
 
Thank you, Steve, for these inspiring summaries and reviews of very  
important themes, highly relevant to our purposes in the life extension and  
enhancement community.
 
I this week finished Ray Kurzweil's  "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long  Enough to 
Live Forever."  And am halfway through "The Singularity is Near:  When Humans 
Transcend Biology."  
 
Not surprisingly for those in this venue, I consider myself a bit of a  
Kurzwielian "Fundamentalist."  

Here is how the  paraphrase goes:  "Ray said it, I believe it, and that 

settles  it."  His previous books have been remarkably prescient and 
documentably  
accurate, despite being hailed at the time as "techno-utopian" and overly  
optimistic.
 
(For those who have been in a cave for some years, there is a fantasically  
annoying phrase in Christian fundamentalism paradied here, "God said it, I  
believe it, and that settles it.")
 
I must cut this posting short, as, ironically in a posting heralding the  

near future joys of enhanced technohuman interaction, my computer and connection
to the web is behaving badly.  
 
Before I get cut off from the net or lose this posting, however, I wanted  to 
thank Steve, who is truly one of my heroes and a hero to the cryonics  
movement, for this well written review of important books.  

I will  put these on my list to read, Steve!

Now...to see if this will  post...
 
For Centuries,
 
Rudi Hoffman
 


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