I count 25 names. How many of these people have died by now, despite the conference's premise 33 years ago about "the current state of life extension sciences"?
Just off the top of my head:
Paul Segall - cryonically suspended, or so I've heard.
Bernard Strehler - dead.
Roy Walford - dead.
Jerry Leaf - cryonically suspended.
Robert Prehoda - apparently dead.
Timothy Leary - dead.
F.M. Esfandiary - cryonically suspended.
Alan Harrington - dead.
Robert Anton Wilson - dead.
Some of the speakers I know of haven't died yet, while I haven't bothered to search the rest. Nonetheless, over a third of them didn't get much out of the "life extension sciences" promoted by That '70's Transhumanism. From hindsight they might as well not bothered holding this sort of conference.
It makes you wonder how many speakers at today's transhumanist conferences will wind up dead according to actuarial expectations, despite the propaganda about reaching actuarial escape velocity.
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