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[WEB EXCLUSIVE] Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives By the Year 2100, by Michio Kaku, Ph.D. New York: Doubleday, 2011. A review by Mark Plus Many cryonicists like to think about something called “the future” (TF) more than other people, and in a more self-interested way than most. Our quest for cryotransport… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Mike Perry Review of God Is Technology: How the Singularity of Monotheism Transcended Biology and Primed the Technological Genesis of God by Mitchell Heisman, from Suicide Note, http://www.suicidenote.info/ebook/suicide_note.pdf, pp. 32-358 (2010), accessed Dec. 6, 2010. Mitchell Heisman, a self-styled sociobiological scholar with a degree in psychology, labored five years on a treatise running to some 1,900 pages,… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Max More, Ph.D Cryonics is an odd service. When you pay for a service—whether it’s having your car cleaned, your taxes prepared, or your dinner served—you typically want what you’ve paid for as soon as possible. Cryopreservation is unusual in that those who pay for it hope never to need it. If we do need it, we… Read more »
By Bret Kulakovich It is certainly something that is on our minds. The seasons have turned through another rotation of holidays, and we find ourselves contemplating our recent enthusiasm at the dinner table. Caloric restriction, as you may know, is the limitation of food intake to produce positive health and longevity results. In a way, while it would seem similar,… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Mike Perry Review of Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by Dr. Sharon Moalem, with Jonathan Prince (William Morrow & Company, 2007) Normally we have a clear distinction in our minds between states of “health” and “disease” – or think we do. Survival of the Sickest challenges this thinking in numerous… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Steve Bridge We can be pleased that cryonics has entered the consciousness of writers these days enough so that it shows up frequently as a plot point in an increasing number of novels. Here I will discuss two books in some detail and one very briefly. Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold, Baen Books, 2010 Lois McMaster Bujold… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Mike Perry Review of Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman and Don Ross, with David Spurrett and John Collier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) As immortalists we hope to be in the world for a good long while, thus we are interested in the nature of reality. Reality determines, among other things, what our… Read more »
