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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: A Personal Meditation on the Consequences of Increasing Social Acceptance for Contra-cultural Undertakings
By Mike Darwin An Unusual, but Perhaps Valuable Analogy This isn’t 1964, 1974, or even 1984 anymore, we aren’t in Kansas, and cryonics is not in the position it once was in. One of the reasons I was never a … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Culture & Propaganda, Medicine
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Chronosphere is Not a Blog!
By Mike Darwin Some years ago, Aschwin de Wolf pushed me very hard to do a blog. We actually got to the point where, due to Aschwin’s efforts, the site was set up on WordPress, and I had done some … Continue reading
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How Not to Get Ahead in Cryonics: Using Google Ngram Technology to Expose Flawed Decision Making in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin The High Price of Mortality The slate of human experience is wiped clean approximately every two generations (~ 50 years). This so far inescapable fact has had disastrous consequences for both cultures and civilizations. While it is … Continue reading
Poisoning the Well: Measuring the Cultural Penetration of Cryonics Using Google Ngram Technology
The lighting-speed evolution of information technology has made new tools available to cryonics that would formerly have been so costly, that only the largest enterprises could have made use of them. And recently, a new technology has emerged that arguably no enterprise, with the possible exception of nation-states, could have mustered the resources to access. In December of 2010 Google, without fanfare, and with virtually no media announcements, released a search tool it calls Ngram. Continue reading
Last Aid as First Aid for Cryonicists, Part 5
Unarguably one of the simplest, and also the most powerful and effective cryonics first aid measures, is to cool the patient. At first glance, this would seem to require little in the way of preparation. After all, how hard is it to get ice and put it on the patient? The answer depends on the answers to two other questions: “How quickly do you want it done” and “where do you live?” Continue reading
Pearl
I remember. A warm summer day, the smell of her house spilling over through the screen of the aluminum storm door: the smell of barley soup and mothballs and dried rose petals all rolled into one. And I remember her. Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Philosophy
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Last Aid as First Aid for Cryonicists, Part 4
In situations where irreversibility has been established by a properly executed medical directive not to pursue cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or defibrillation (especially in cases where the patient is of advanced age, in poor health, or is terminally), it still necessary to objectively determine and document cardiopulmonary arrest. Continue reading
Poisoning the Well: “Mom in Love & Daddy in Space”
We had arrived ahead of our host, and it was starting to rain. We were unprepared for the rain, and it wasn’t just a matter our getting a little damp; there was the laptop computer to consider, and all the other “personal electronic” devices, now essential to survival in the 21st century. Unfortunately, the two men dressed completely in black, guarding the entryway with automatic weapons, seemed disinclined to be moved by our plight. A few calls over the building’s intercom secured us entrance, and a short time later the Oligarch who we were there to meet arrived and escorted us into the office suite, to carry on the day’s discussions. The discussions were long and unproductive – at least from my point of view. My position was that cryonics required a dynamic and coherent philosophy, coupled to an organizational framework that would sustain it, through what I believed were very difficult times to come. The others were more interested in the brass tacks of business than the golden words of philosophy. Continue reading
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Last Aid as First Aid for Cryonicists, Part 3
By Mike Darwin Sudden Death and Unexpected Death: Is there a Difference and Does it Matter? Most cryonicists understand what sudden death is: it is cardiac arrest due to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), rapidly fatal stroke, accident, homicide, and yes, even … Continue reading
Poisoning the Well
Monitoring the CryoCultural Penetration of the Groundwater By Mike Darwin There ain’t no justice… If any press is good press, then cryonics should consider itself blessed indeed; because that perennial bad seed, Robert F. Nelson, is about have a movie … Continue reading