What about Futurama? Or is that not suitable because, as a comedy, it’s more cynical and brings up both the way the future would be somewhat disturbing for us and that it’s likely our descendents would be more interested in only reviving famous historical figures and sticking their heads in museums.
The comic Transmetropolitan also brings up the issue of cryogenics “revivals” effectively being confined to nursing homes out of our total shock at the weirdness of the future and inability to cope. It’s an interesting series for transhumanists, given that it has people uploading themselves into swarms of nanobots, and the idea of a small “preseve” for techno-libertarians to generate whatever technologies they want (“The hell was that?” “It’s the local news, sent directly to your brain via nanopollen!” “Wasn’t that banned when it was found to build up in the synapses and cause alzheimer’s?” “We think we’ve ironed out the bugs...”)
What about Futurama? Or is that not suitable because, as a comedy, it’s more cynical and brings up both the way the future would be somewhat disturbing for us and that it’s likely our descendents would be more interested in only reviving famous historical figures and sticking their heads in museums.
The comic Transmetropolitan also brings up the issue of cryogenics “revivals” effectively being confined to nursing homes out of our total shock at the weirdness of the future and inability to cope. It’s an interesting series for transhumanists, given that it has people uploading themselves into swarms of nanobots, and the idea of a small “preseve” for techno-libertarians to generate whatever technologies they want (“The hell was that?” “It’s the local news, sent directly to your brain via nanopollen!” “Wasn’t that banned when it was found to build up in the synapses and cause alzheimer’s?” “We think we’ve ironed out the bugs...”)