Category Archives: futures

a cryonaut in the news

Posted on Monday, 2002 July 15 by Anton

Ted Williams, who I gather had something to do with sports, is in liquid nitrogen storage and his daughter is suing to make sure he stays dead. (Thanks to Kennita Watson for the link.) I have been acquainted with several … Continue reading →

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today we choose faces

Posted on Saturday, 2002 July 13 by Anton

This week I read Zelazny’s Lord of Light for about the fourth time; and got to thinking about faces. The story is set in a world where it is routine to transfer one’s soul every forty or fifty years into … Continue reading →

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wonders of the past and future

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 22 by Anton

I was reading The Spike by Damien Broderick (I’m up to the part about the complexity of controlling zillions of nanomachines) and a fellow passenger asked what it’s about. People are paid to summarize books better than I can, so … Continue reading →

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dentists in Beleriand?

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

“Jane Galt” (Megan McArdle) remarks in passing that “our bodies aren’t really up to the strain of physical labor for our new, improved lifespans.” Which reminds me of a puzzler: In all those stories where a drug/virus confers immortality, what … Continue reading →

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the final enemy

Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 25 by Anton

Charles Murtaugh quotes from the NY Times obituary an interesting sentence from Stephen Jay Gould (apparently in 1982 when he first had cancer): “When my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way,” … Continue reading →

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everybody’s doing it

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 16 by Anton

I am somehow disappointed to find that Volokh knew before I did that Duncan Frissell, with whom I exchanged some interesting mail on and around the Extropians list back when, has a you-know-what.

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I knew him when he posted to alt.peeves

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 15 by Anton

Recent reading: Toast and other rusted futures, short stories by Charlie Stross, most of which can be described as humorous dys-extropian. 2006: This item formerly linked to Charlie’s story “Lobsters”, which is part of Accelerando.