1, Florida's new law on anatomical donations will prevent a cryonicist who dies in that state from going into cryo.
Reference:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/New_Cryonet/conversations/messages/5925
An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler's "nanotechnology" simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong, and he recommends that cryonics organizations stop invoking the idea as the revival mechanism. Continuing to rely on "nanotechnology" propaganda leaves cryonics organizations open to accusations of knowingly practicing fraud based on pseudo- and cargo cult science.
We'll see a divergence in public discussions about "the future," where one group continues to promote accelerationist claims, while another asks why "the future" the former keeps promising us hasn't arrived yet.
And I keep asking that myself. My father took me to see Stanley Kubrick's famous film at a theater in Tulsa back in 1968 (quite an adventure for a geeky 8 year old Okie boy!), and I can remember thinking that the year 2001 seemed like a wondrous, far-off future time. Living thirteen years afterwards of that date in reality, I feel a bit cheated.
An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler's "nanotechnology" simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong, and he recommends that cryonics organizations stop invoking the idea as the revival mechanism.
Hasn't Mike Darwin been doing this for years? (And for good reason?)
...We'll see a divergence in public discussions about "the future," where one group continues to promote accelerationist claims, while another asks why "the future" the former keeps promising us hasn't arriv
It's time to look back to see what was predicted a year ago and how successfully it was.
But even more, it's time for the fresh predictions for the following year, 2014.