While I associate hibernation with bears, it doesn't carry a negative connotation (in fact, it's somewhat positive and cute) and can be related to medical hibernation. Cryosleep, as Daniel mentions, while better than a death-associated term, does require follow-on explanation of what cryosleep is. First use of ambulance to the future I could find was a LA Times interview of Steve Bridges (former Alcor President) published March 2, 1994, where he was quoted using the phrase "ambulance ot the future". I recall it from very early in my association with "Medical Hibernation" (;-), but it may be older. Steve may know. Interesting podcast discussion.
The flip side of avoiding the D-word in discussions of cryonics is that apparently now we're not supposed to use the I-word to describe what many cryonicists say they want, at least discreetly.
Which to me sounds like a repudiation of how Robert Ettinger titled his first book, "The Prospect of Immortality."
I don't have a problem saying that as a cryonicist I want to become an immortal superhuman, but the meme doesn't communicate well in the current culture because of the timing, not because of the content. In a technologically competent society a few centuries from now where it could be both feasible and socially acceptable to live indefinitely in good physical & cognitive shape, the people in that era are probably going to call the ability to enjoy those advantages by some banal term like "good health," and not by some current techno-nerd neologism like "transhumanism," "engineered negligible senescence" or whatever.
Regarding alleged breakthroughs in anti-aging medicine and such, too bad the super-healthcare billionaires allegedly have access to either isn't real, or else it's just cynical quackery intended to exploit these billionaires financially. President Trump's rapid physical & cognitive deterioration as a public figure shows us the reality of billionaires' healthcare, and that's even considering that Trump associates with Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, whom you'd think would be taking advantage of this super-medicine if it really existed, and they would be recommending it to the ailing President.
While I associate hibernation with bears, it doesn't carry a negative connotation (in fact, it's somewhat positive and cute) and can be related to medical hibernation. Cryosleep, as Daniel mentions, while better than a death-associated term, does require follow-on explanation of what cryosleep is. First use of ambulance to the future I could find was a LA Times interview of Steve Bridges (former Alcor President) published March 2, 1994, where he was quoted using the phrase "ambulance ot the future". I recall it from very early in my association with "Medical Hibernation" (;-), but it may be older. Steve may know. Interesting podcast discussion.
A bit OT, but is Max Marty going to cancel cryonicist Eliezer Yudkowsky now because Peter Thiel has identified him as Antichrist?
The flip side of avoiding the D-word in discussions of cryonics is that apparently now we're not supposed to use the I-word to describe what many cryonicists say they want, at least discreetly.
Which to me sounds like a repudiation of how Robert Ettinger titled his first book, "The Prospect of Immortality."
I don't have a problem saying that as a cryonicist I want to become an immortal superhuman, but the meme doesn't communicate well in the current culture because of the timing, not because of the content. In a technologically competent society a few centuries from now where it could be both feasible and socially acceptable to live indefinitely in good physical & cognitive shape, the people in that era are probably going to call the ability to enjoy those advantages by some banal term like "good health," and not by some current techno-nerd neologism like "transhumanism," "engineered negligible senescence" or whatever.
Regarding alleged breakthroughs in anti-aging medicine and such, too bad the super-healthcare billionaires allegedly have access to either isn't real, or else it's just cynical quackery intended to exploit these billionaires financially. President Trump's rapid physical & cognitive deterioration as a public figure shows us the reality of billionaires' healthcare, and that's even considering that Trump associates with Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, whom you'd think would be taking advantage of this super-medicine if it really existed, and they would be recommending it to the ailing President.