X-Message-Number: 6283
From:  (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: "Cold Lazarus" blow to neuropreservation
Date: 27 May 1996 12:08:49 -0700
Message-ID: <4ocuk1$>
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In article <>,
John de Rivaz  <> wrote:
>The world is generally that of BladeRunner - heavily polluted and choked 
>with a forbidding cityscape.
>
>Cold Lazarus cost half a million pounds for its special effects, and the 
>script is said to be riddled with nanotechnological jargon. Actor Cieran 

Well, while not impossible to conceive, in the general thought it is
unlikely that polution and nanotechnology would go together.  In fact,
cleaning polution is one of the first likely applications for nanotech,
as well as making non-polluting industrial and chemical processes.  In
fact biological nanotech, which will probably come first, will probably be
put to this application first.

>I wonder how much he really found out about cryonics and the philosophy 
>behind it. This work suggests that he gots his ideas from detractors who 

You can expect this.  If the fiction is about cryonics, then it is far
more likely that it will want to write about what can go wrong than
how it works if it all goes right.  This is normal for fiction.  It will
only write about Cryonics going right if it is simply a plot device to
take you to the story the author really wants to tell, for example a
story about the future with a character from the past.   Then it usually
ends up ridiculously positive, ie. instant revival at the push of a button
etc.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 
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