If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout

Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by bryanlarsen on Thursday April 28, 2016 @05:32PM (#11592059)

1) countries in developed countries quite regularly spend $100K-$1M to treat illnesses in poor people. I think a larger concern would be that they would choose to spend $50K to freeze a severely ill poor person than $1M to treat that same person.

2) as long as immortals don't have more children than mortals, then immortality has a surprisingly small effect on population growth.

The effects I'd be worried about would be the effects of having the majority of the world's wealth and power being held in the hands of immortals and cryogenic trusts.

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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by nine_k on Thursday April 28, 2016 @05:43PM (#11592120)

Ever read 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan? This SF novel (quite a page-turner, btw) is set exactly in the world like that: changing bodies extends life, and the powerful understandably have more access to that, accumulating wealth.

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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by siquick on Thursday April 28, 2016 @07:06PM (#11592532)

Soon to be released as a series on Netflix

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/netflix-altered-carbon-serie...

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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by Aelinsaar on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:57PM (#11592489)

Absolutely fascinating way of looking at things, the concept of "Resleeving".

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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by wiredfool on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:34AM (#11594612)

That's part of the plot of Cyroburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold. (Come to think of it, Neuromancer as well)

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