X-Message-Number: 5477 Date: Tue, 26 Dec 95 12:36:59 From: John de Rivaz <> Subject: SUBJECT: Accreditation I have been reading the posts on accreditation and legal issues. For cryonics to work we need substantial advances in technology. Cryonics was around before the computer industry had provided useful computers at an affordable cost. In the early days of cryonics you may have been able to get small computers that could be used in a limited way by electronics enthusiasts such as myself, or as games machines if you were satisfied with "tele tennis". Or you could buy large expensive machines to fulfil ordinary office functions. In the 1960s, you could get a word processor. It would fill an air conditioned room and require professional operators! None of the cryonics societies even considered buying computers until machines were available *at an affordable cost* that could meet their needs of word processing, publishing, record keeping and process control. As well as advances in technology, cryonics needs advances in the law - both in application of it at an affordable cost, and also in its attitude to the individual, in particular with with regards to treatment of the individual's own body. This will come by political acton where appropriate, and, as with computers, with patience. There are just too many people (outside of cryonics) dissatisfied with the law for the present professional- cartel/political axis system to continue. When accrediation and regulation are attainable *at an affordable cost* they will indeed be useful additions to the credibility of the concept of cryonic suspension. But at the moment they are in the state of the word processor that requires professional operators in an air conditioned room. Let other industries meet the development costs, let us have the rewards when the costs and useability are more reasonable. -- Sincerely, **************************************** * Publisher of Longevity Report * John de Rivaz * Fractal Report * * details on request * **************************************** In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5477