X-Message-Number: 33356
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:49:44 -0700
Subject: I second Kennita's "open letter to the cryonics community"
From: MARK PLUS <>

The cryonics movement shows signs of going into decline. Alcor's
membership has stayed in the 900's for several years now, for example.

I also see the need for a new book to explain and advocate cryonics to
replace writings from the era portrayed in the TV series "Mad Men." If
someone invented cryonics now as a new idea, how would he or she
present it based on current science, technology and thinking about
"the future," instead of employing paleofuturism from the 1960's
through the 1980's, including Drexler's "nanotechnology" mirage and
talk about the "space age"?

BTW, you know cryonics has reputation problems as a "futuristic" idea
when a new book, "An Optimist's Tour of the Future," dismisses
cryonics early on by comparing it to Alex Chiu's immortality rings.
Contrast that with the way Ed Regis portrays cryonics in a similar
book, "Great Mambo Chicken," published two decades ago. Regis treats
cryonics ironically, but at least he gives cryonicists a hearing.

Reference:



http://books.google.com/books?id=4RAq9z5RgxYC&lpg=PP1&dq=optimist's%20guide%20to%20the%20future&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q=cryonics&f=false



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Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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