CryoNet #32199 - #32200

CryoNet - Thu 10 Dec 2009

    #32199: Re: Grim story on cryonics [Luke Parrish]
    #32200: Re: Grim story on cryonics [Mark Plus]

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Message #32199
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Subject: Re: Grim story on cryonics

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Message #32200
From: Mark Plus <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Grim story on cryonics
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:12:23 -0800

"Futurist" Jacque Fresco, who at age 93 has received some renewed interest thanks to those "Zeitgeist" movies on the web, writes negatively about revived cryonauts in his book, "Looking Forward" (1969). Scroll down to pp. 107-110:

http://www.thevenusproject.com/images/stories/Looking-Forward-v2.pdf

Wikipedia on Fresco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco

As you can probably gather from his portrayal of the "sane" individuals in his utopia set in "the twenty-first century," Fresco engages in a certain amount of human nature denialism as well. The passage where the shiny happy Future People become "physically ill and vomit" at the behavior of a community of cryonauts could have come from the satirical film "Demolition Man."

Mark Plus
 		 	   		  
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