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Don't Feeze Me, Bro

"Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future."  Get frozen today; wake up tomorrow.  Sounds great, right?  No way.As Arthur Clarke noted, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  A society advanced enough to revive me would literally be magical.  Would the median IQ, relative to current IQs, be 200?  What language would they speak in this advanced society?  Imagine a Cro-Magnon awakening in modern-day America.  Where does one even begin with the difficulties our primitive Rip Van Winkle would face?Could I even survive in such a society?  What if I was revived to be tested?  I may be viewed as no different from a lab rat...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).