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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
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
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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
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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
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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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