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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Letter to the Aspirants
The following is an edited for publication version of a letter that has been written in various versions to various people over the past 5 years. This, the last version, was written in 2008. These letters always began Dear _________, … Continue reading
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1968 AD > Cryonics > Reboot
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” - Philippians 2:12-13 Left: Mike Darwin at the Cryonics Society of New York in1971 (Inset: in Russia July, 2008). Future Shock Now By the time you are 50, if not before, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Culture & Propaganda, Perfusion, Philosophy
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The Russians are Coming!
By Mike Darwin In 2008 I had the privilege of visiting the Russian Federation and meeting with Russian cryonicists in Moscow and Veronezh. Moscow was an alien and bizarre experience for me – one which I have likened to being … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Culture & Propaganda
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I Know this is Going to be Shocking: A Review of Wearable Continuous Monitoring Systems to Detect and Treat Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Cryonicists
By Mike Darwin The problem of a cryonicist experiencing sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) unattended is hardly theoretical. This has occurred a number of times already, with some patients going upwards of a week before being discovered. Because SCA is only … Continue reading
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: A Personal Meditation on the Consequences of Increasing Social Acceptance for Contra-cultural Undertakings
By Mike Darwin An Unusual, but Perhaps Valuable Analogy This isn’t 1964, 1974, or even 1984 anymore, we aren’t in Kansas, and cryonics is not in the position it once was in. One of the reasons I was never a … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Culture & Propaganda, Medicine
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Chronosphere is Not a Blog!
By Mike Darwin Some years ago, Aschwin de Wolf pushed me very hard to do a blog. We actually got to the point where, due to Aschwin’s efforts, the site was set up on WordPress, and I had done some … Continue reading
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How Not to Get Ahead in Cryonics: Using Google Ngram Technology to Expose Flawed Decision Making in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin The High Price of Mortality The slate of human experience is wiped clean approximately every two generations (~ 50 years). This so far inescapable fact has had disastrous consequences for both cultures and civilizations. While it is … Continue reading
Poisoning the Well: Measuring the Cultural Penetration of Cryonics Using Google Ngram Technology
The lighting-speed evolution of information technology has made new tools available to cryonics that would formerly have been so costly, that only the largest enterprises could have made use of them. And recently, a new technology has emerged that arguably no enterprise, with the possible exception of nation-states, could have mustered the resources to access. In December of 2010 Google, without fanfare, and with virtually no media announcements, released a search tool it calls Ngram. Continue reading
Last Aid as First Aid for Cryonicists, Part 5
Unarguably one of the simplest, and also the most powerful and effective cryonics first aid measures, is to cool the patient. At first glance, this would seem to require little in the way of preparation. After all, how hard is it to get ice and put it on the patient? The answer depends on the answers to two other questions: “How quickly do you want it done” and “where do you live?” Continue reading
Pearl
I remember. A warm summer day, the smell of her house spilling over through the screen of the aluminum storm door: the smell of barley soup and mothballs and dried rose petals all rolled into one. And I remember her. Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Philosophy
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