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This might depend on how long it takes to develop revival. Any estimates?
If it's just a few decades, cryonics companies might want to signal trustworthiness by reviving everyone.
In The First Immortal, a science fiction novel about cryonics, there's a law that no one gets revived unless there's someone willing to do the work of integrating them into the future society.
In other words, you'd do well to be an interesting person, and better to be from a family with a very strong culture of loyalty, though I suppose that integration could also be a matter of contract with a cryonics company.
It depends on the gap between us and the future society - if the wilder/more optimistic predictions of transhumanism and artificial intelligence come true - and they have to come true for cryonics to work, the gap between 2050 and now will be bigger that between us and Stone Age.
Would you invite your great...grandfather Ugg for dinner?
I've wondered if the revived people might end up as an underclass, or as several underclasses.