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From: "Steve Harris" <>
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Subject: Far Future Summer Reading
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:38:15 -0700

On the L.A. Times list of 50 Summer Reading Books:

Year Million
Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge
Edited by Damien Broderick
Atlas & Co.
What will the world be like in a million years? What will 
humans be like? Fourteen essays consider the possibilities.

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Excuse the self-promotion, but I couldn't resist (I'm one of 
the essay authors).

I must admit that for a futurist screed, there's not a lot 
on cryonics in the book, though there is lots and lots of 
transhumanism. But cryonics is implied, as an almost 
throwaway-given. The far future's a fascinating "place." The 
Amazing Creswell (see #19744 and previous messages) used to 
say that the one thing we know about the future, is that 
we're all going to live there. Actually, that's one of the 
few things we can be certain is not true about the future. 
Certainly the Amazing Creswell isn't going to live there.

And the rest of you: do what you must, or turn into dust.

Steve Harris 

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