On last week’s World Transformed, we talked about parallel universes in their various theoretical permutations. (This piece on Better All the Time walks through the various levels that we discussed on the show.) The discussion followed the news that evidence for universes outside our own may have been found. Thinking over the discussion, a question occurred […]
Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the US, statesman, inventor, diplomat, had these prescient words to say on the subject of cryo-preservation: I wish it were possible… to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent […]
Looking back over The Speculist, I was surprised to find that we haven’t written much about cryonics (Phil has mentioned it in passing). The whole subject has been on ice, so to speak. What’s there to say? You freeze people (not really), and wait around for nanotech or whatever to come to the rescue. No […]