X-Message-Number: 27419 From: 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 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27419