RE: MEDIA: Article on cryonics in Boston Globe

From: Jones, Spike (spike.jones@lmco.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 16:34:40 MDT


>Has anyone looked at the results poll? The majority wants to be
around in
>2200, yet only a minority would be cryonically frozen after death
even
>if financing it wasn't an issue. What other option is there to
live to
>the year 2200 *after you've died*??? Maybe the public just needs
to be
>better educated...

        the public might not realize that the possibility of living in 2200
is an
        option. they treat the question as hypothetical. we treat it as a
        concrete. so we take the steps necessary to make that happen. the
        others just dream.

>I remember Anders Sandberg classifying himself as a nerd. Why was
that?

we nerds wear that term as a badge of honor... {8^D



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