X-Message-Number: 29604
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Professional marketing

> Message #29597 From: 
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> The notion that "professional marketing" would work magic for cryonics is

> unsupported by relevant evidence, and probably contradicted by some  evidence.
> ...
> Saul Kent has characterized the problem as "selling something you don't have
> to someone who doesn't want it." Of course we do have something and some do
> want it, but that says  nothing positive about the value of professional
> marketers.
>
In other words, I gather Saul is saying something similar to "engineered
reversible cryostasis" (ERC) is not available yet either technologically
or even legally, and even if it were, since this could only be applied to
the still living, damn few, except the terminally moribund would want it
in first case, except as a desperate last bid to stay alive until a cure
for whatever is killing them is found, at a time in the distant future
when all of their friends are almost certainly dead. Although cryonics is
definitely not ERC, even when all the technological and legal bugs are
worked out in 50 or so years, ERC will still never be anything that would
be hawked on late night (3-D) TV. Instead it would remain a last ditch
medical option for the rich and ridiculous, who in addition just happen
to be in the process of dieing.

If you want to get onboard with something that will probably eventually
become big business, try engineered negligible senescence instead. Truly
effective rejuvenation treatments, when they eventually become available
in a century or two, will likely be offered by some of the largest
corporations then in existence.

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