X-Message-Number: 6563 From: (Charles Platt) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: About Cryonics and Illiteracy Date: 19 Jul 1996 01:06:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4sn54e$> References: <4sjcvd$> <4smrnu$> Olaf Henny () wrote: [more reasonable arguments about future Future Shock] Okay, you may be right. (But I still think the real challenge will come for ALL human beings adapting to hyperintelligent machines.) Either way, there is another answer: people from the past can form their own little defensive clique, just as people from less-developed countries gravitate defensively to their own neighborhoods in New York City (where I live). If we are revived at all, there must be substantial wealth and advanced technology. This should certainly be capable of creating a pocket of comfortable primitivism. Indeed I expect many groups like the Amish to spring up, refusing to use postmodern technology. You don't have to be frozen and rewarmed to be lost in techno-space. Many people already are, and technology has barely started changing the world. So, I look forward to a kind of retirement bickering with other resuscitated cryonauts. I will of course want to see the world of the future, but I expect to do that only via remote robotic rovers, possibly using duplicates of my intelligence downloaded into silicon (or whatever they're using instead of silicon). Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6563