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Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now
Over the past few years there has been increasing friction between a subset of cryonicists, and people in the Transhumanist (TH) and Technological Singularity communities, most notably those who follow the capital N, Nanotechnology doctrine.[1, 2] Or perhaps more accurately, … Continue reading
You be the Judge: Understanding and Evaluating the Quality of Human Cryopreservations from Cryonics Organization Literature and Case Report Data, Part 4
Medical Records, Medical History and the Necessity for Highly Skilled Cryonics-Based Medical Evaluation and Judgment “The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future–must mediate these things, and have two special objects in … Continue reading
You be the Judge: Understanding and Evaluating the Quality of Human Cryopreservations from Cryonics Organization Literature and Case Report Data, Part 2
By Mike Darwin Defining the Cryonics Organization When cryonics began in the 1960s, the mission of the 4 cryonics societies[1] that more or less simultaneously came into existence at that time was fairly homogenous: 1) Make cryopreservation available to their … Continue reading
Michael G. Darwin, a Biographical Précis
Please note: A PDF of this article is available at: http://cryoeuro.eu:8080/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=1441801&sortBy=date&highlight=Darwin_Michael_+G_+Biography_v4.3.pdf& Authorship & Editing Credits The following biography began as a Wikipedia entry authored primarily by Ben Best and a Wikipedian who identifies himself as “Cryobiologist.” In May of 2010, … Continue reading
1968 AD > Cryonics > Reboot
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” - Philippians 2:12-13 Left: Mike Darwin at the Cryonics Society of New York in1971 (Inset: in Russia July, 2008). Future Shock Now By the time you are 50, if not before, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Culture & Propaganda, Perfusion, Philosophy
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The Russians are Coming!
By Mike Darwin In 2008 I had the privilege of visiting the Russian Federation and meeting with Russian cryonicists in Moscow and Veronezh. Moscow was an alien and bizarre experience for me – one which I have likened to being … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Culture & Propaganda
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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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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
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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