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- From: csuab@warwick.ac.uk (Steve Strong)
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- Subject: Re: Is suspension necessary?
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:10:49 GMT
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- bsb2u@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Brian Samuel Bevins) writes:
- :
- : The only serious objection I can see at present is this: It may
- : be that the medical techniques required to revive a "deanimate"
- : individual are more likely to be developed than time travel. This
- : seems like a statement of faith at best.
-
- I think nanotech will almost certainly arrive long before time travel
- becomes possible. Millions of $s are being invested into nanotech
- research, and some good progress has already been made. As far as
- I am aware, there is no serious research into practical time travel
- at the moment.
-
- : How can we predict
- : which of the things we can't do now we will ever be able to do?
- : After all, we are not discussing controlled fusion, cross-species
- : organ transplants, or some other technology that might not be too
- : far off in the future. Even in those cases whether we will meet
- : ultimately with success cannot be accurately predicted, and the
- : possibilities being discussed here are centuries off at best.
-
- But we can do nanotech now. Your body is a living example that it
- is possible. All the trends in computing and micro-medicine are
- heading towards nanotech. It seems quite possible that we will
- have a reasonably useful nanotech capability in about 50 years.
- There is nothing that we know of which shows us that time travel is
- possible - many good physicists are convinced that it isn't. I
- think I'd put my bets on nanotech.
-
- : -Brian Bevins
-
- Steve
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