An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler’s “nanotechnology” simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong, and he recommends that cryonics organizations stop invoking the idea as the revival mechanism. Continuing to rely on “nanotechnology” propaganda leaves cryonics organizations open to accusations of knowingly practicing fraud based on pseudo- and cargo cult science.
We’ll see a divergence in public discussions about “the future,” where one group continues to promote accelerationist claims, while another asks why “the future” the former keeps promising us hasn’t arrived yet.
And I keep asking that myself. My father took me to see Stanley Kubrick’s famous film at a theater in Tulsa back in 1968 (quite an adventure for a geeky 8 year old Okie boy!), and I can remember thinking that the year 2001 seemed like a wondrous, far-off future time. Living thirteen years afterwards of that date in reality, I feel a bit cheated.
An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler’s “nanotechnology” simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong.
Please provide an explanation or citation. In the mean time, here is a growing list of peer-reviewed publications of ab-initio quantum simulations of Drexler-esque diamondoid mechanosynthesis:
An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler’s “nanotechnology” simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong, and he recommends that cryonics organizations stop invoking the idea as the revival mechanism.
Hasn’t Mike Darwin been doing this for years? (And for good reason?)
We’ll see a divergence in public discussions about “the future,” where one group continues to promote accelerationist claims, while another asks why “the future” the former keeps promising us hasn’t arrived yet.
Happened in my circles years ago. With the vast majority of my circle (and me) falling into the latter camp for most of the stereotypical issues/themes.
1, Florida’s new law on anatomical donations will prevent a cryonicist who dies in that state from going into cryo.
Reference:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/New_Cryonet/conversations/messages/5925
An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler’s “nanotechnology” simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong, and he recommends that cryonics organizations stop invoking the idea as the revival mechanism. Continuing to rely on “nanotechnology” propaganda leaves cryonics organizations open to accusations of knowingly practicing fraud based on pseudo- and cargo cult science.
We’ll see a divergence in public discussions about “the future,” where one group continues to promote accelerationist claims, while another asks why “the future” the former keeps promising us hasn’t arrived yet.
And I keep asking that myself. My father took me to see Stanley Kubrick’s famous film at a theater in Tulsa back in 1968 (quite an adventure for a geeky 8 year old Okie boy!), and I can remember thinking that the year 2001 seemed like a wondrous, far-off future time. Living thirteen years afterwards of that date in reality, I feel a bit cheated.
Please provide an explanation or citation. In the mean time, here is a growing list of peer-reviewed publications of ab-initio quantum simulations of Drexler-esque diamondoid mechanosynthesis:
http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/Publications.htm
Hasn’t Mike Darwin been doing this for years? (And for good reason?)
Happened in my circles years ago. With the vast majority of my circle (and me) falling into the latter camp for most of the stereotypical issues/themes.