"Although no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90% -- and certainly nobody can say it is zero."
-Sir Arthur C. Clarke
I'm sure Mr. Clarke was aware of the growth of nanotechnology, as well as the emergence of longevity medicine.
Apparently, he said we become new people every 10 years.
Unfortunately, the new model is not as good as previous ones.
We have no choice but to admit it.
If Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, etc. did not go for cryonics, then what does it say for
us lesser people?
It was not hard for me to choose cryonics.
Robert Freitas, Jr. said several years ago at a conference that every person who dies takes as much data as is stored in three Libraries of Congress.
Imagine how many more bestsellers would have come from these writers.
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