Cryonics article in the Australian "Rolling Stone"

Life on the Rocks (PDF)

The author, Mark White, calls Robert Ettinger's 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality "a curio of U.S.-style Atomic Age optimism and unsettling utilitarianism."

Ettinger's book does reflect the time in which he wrote it, but the Emergency cryonics tries to solve continues regardless of passing historical situations. I do see the need for a restatement of the cryonics thesis which incorporates what we know, and what we have to work with, in the second decade of the 21st Century. And I think that should include alternatives to Drexler's discredited ideas from the 1980's. Cryonics needs rebooting and rebranding to make it understandable for people who view the "Atomic Age," not to mention "the assembler breakthrough," as their fathers' and grandfathers' paleo-future.

Of course, a few paleo-future ideas still have something going for them, despite their falling out of fashion. Peter Thiel, for example, thinks we should "go back to the science fiction novels of the 1950s and ’60s and try to run the past 40 years again."