X-Message-Number: 9872
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 17:27:08 -0400
From: Bozzonetti <>
Subject: Cost of reanimation

Saul Kent has pointed out the reanimation cost in some messages and suggest
there must be a lot of thinking about it.  The first answer to this
question is simple: we don't know how to reanimate frozen bodies and so
can't put a price on it. On the other hand we guess this cost,, even
undefined today, will be real and invoice-associed when the technology will
be here. 

Now, whatever the price, it will comes from a technology defined by some
research. Nothing will come from the blue sky. That research will produce
some patents and these will bring money. Not our present-day money, the
money of the reanimation days. Now, the patents themselve will not come
from nothing, they 'll come from the money invested in reanimation
research. And that may be our present-day money.

To summarize, the only way I see to pay today for a technology not
completed (not even started!) is to invest in reanimation research.

Saul Kent has called for investment in reversible cryopreservation, this is
certainly the first thing to do. Now it seems there is a second step we
must take into account: invest in present day recovery patients. Well, we
don't have the nanotech to start with, but we could look at new scanning
systems able see where are the problems. This must be done without thawing
or any destructions so, even if there are big mistakes that will not
overburden a comming reanimation process.

I don't see any other way to pay today for something in the far future.
Research is our only link to that epoch. Any financial scheme will be
overturned in the long run by money-making people and there will be nothing
left when the technology will be here.

        Yvan Bozzonetti.

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