X-Message-Number: 5934
From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension
Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:49:39 +0100
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In article: <>  John Sharman 
<> writes:
> I don't know what the equivalent of "expensive" is going to be in those
> days, but whatever it is reviving 1995 corpses is going to be it.
> Remember you are talking about the last few hundred of the most hopeless
> cases.

Unless the "intellectual property rights" problem increases over time, the 
costs of reanimating people suspended in year X will be costs of modifying 
nanotechnological software for those suspended in year X+1. Having got to 
year X, the reanimation people will find it doesn't cost that much to go on 
to X-1 and so on. (Bear in mind nanotechnological hardware, the atoms and 
molecules of which the universe is made, is free.)

This is the "standing on the shoulders of giants" method that makes science 
so powerful. Of course the patent lawyers and intellecutal property rights 
people may have quashed this concept completely, but if they have I would 
suggest that the required nanotechnology is never developed at all, and 
therefore the problem will never arise.

As a side issue, I think you can build *for your own use only* a product 
defined in a patent without paying royalty, but you can't sell it or a 
product incorporating it. Is this true does anyone know?

In article: <4i7jed$>   (David 
L Evens) writes:
[Sharman wrote]
> : You cryo people may have some interesting and bright ideas. You may in
> : time prove to be right in your long term prognosis that one day a highly
> : developed nanotechnology will emerge. But you really don't consider the
> : practicalities do you?
> 
> What's practical about letting people die when they can be placed in 
> suspension to await revival at a future date?

It is highly practical, if expensive, from the point of view of governments 
as entities distinct from human beings. It is expensive because of the new 
education required, but it is another shake of the dice that may produce 
the ideal person from the governmental point of view - a docile genius.

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