X-Message-Number: 6563
From:  (Charles Platt)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: About Cryonics and Illiteracy
Date: 19 Jul 1996 01:06:22 -0400
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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).


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