Would you do it?

[AndyHui]

If you had the opportunity to be frozen cryogenically/placed in suspended animation/whatever, and be released in 150 years time, ie 2151, would you do it?

Consider this: you get to take advantage of all of man's achievements over a span of 150 years into the future....medical science, technology, possible expansion into space....everything.
Imagine the sort of computer you could get....

And yet...all the people that you knew are gone, no one you know are left, you do not know how society operates, its trends and normal behaviour....

Would you be willing to give up everything now and come back in 150 years time?

 

[Bling Bling]

no

 

[hadoken]

no, but you go ahead.

 

[Poontos]

I've already done it. It was fun.

 

[chrome]

first tell me this are the girls hotter in the future

 

[Bling Bling]

i had sex with your mother.

 

[AndyHui]

chrome: you would assume that with advances in the ways that people take care of themselves, better technology and medical science, that the answer to your question would be a big YES...

 

[guyver01]

Yer assuming that the world would still be around in 150 years, and that mankind hasn't gone thru some horrible apocalypse... or that life would be *better* in 150 years...


but to answer your question... i'd do it.

just to make guinness's book as worlds oldest human.

 

[chrome]

i'd do it if they could clone me a charisma carpenter or an elizabeth hurley, sure i'd miss my friends, but i'm sure i'll have things to get my mind of that.

 

[AndyHui]

guyver01: and therein lies the risk. Give up what you have now, for either a really good future or a really crap future?

I have a little bit of faith in the order of things and think that humans would take fairly good care of themselves.

Interesting, isn't it? To end up like Austin Powers, or Sylvester Stallone in Demolition Man....

 

[Renob]

there is to much cell damage your brain will be mush

 

[RGN]

only if it really worked...

 

[dopcombo]

hehe... seeing as how my life is so sad right now, i will most definitely do it.
maybe i will die halfway (but we all die anyway), maybe the world will become screwed up, (heh, u guys shd take a look at 3rd world countries right now), but i mean the possibility of a bright future would really intrigue me.
besides, i would love to see the technology of the future.

 

[Wingznut]

Nah... I accept life and death for what it is.

 

[AndyHui]

Assume that the suspension process worked and you came out of it unscathed.

 

[IBhacknU]

no thanks... life is good!

 

[Dameon]

Along the movie... Forever Young, if the love of my life, my wife passed away I would certainly be willing to do it. But, I'd be better than Mel was and I'd make certain she was actually dead & buried before freezin' myself.

 

[LordMaul]

Only if I had nothing to stay is this time period for. Which I do....Hey, what if AnandTech.com isn't around then?!?!

 

hrmm
tough.
Can you do it like 10 years from now?

Because if something happens while your in there.
Well, thats all over with.

 

[divinemartyr]

That's really funny this topic came up... I am really fortunate, at least in my eyes, to be born in a time which allows for hobbies... I love car stereos, home stereos, computers, technology... everything that has to do with technology for the most part, i'm a big fan of... and probably less than a week ago I was considering whether or not I wish I had been born in the future... I think at this point in my life, no I wouldn't do it. I have a mother and father I love very much, a girlfriend I care for a lot, and those things alone I couldn't leave. Not to mention, watching Tool and A Perfect Circle in concert would not be an option in 150 years.. if my mom and dad were gone, my girlfriend not in my life, and tool and apc were no longer groups, then I would do it. I know it sounds silly, but music has been a huge influence on my life, as well as my parents. Not now, probably later yes.

dm

 

[AndyHui]

That's the whole point.....150 years....all or nothing. Willing to take the gamble?

150 years is sufficient to make a real, material change to the world, without the safety net of having around someone that you know.

Descendents? Maybe. What do you think?

 

[AndyHui]

Would it make a difference to you if you could take someone with you?

 

[randomlinh]

i'd do it when I'm old and gray, but for 1000 yrs.. i'd want to see what it would be like then.

 

[AndyHui]

Why old and gray? So that you have nothing to lose?

 

[nickdakick]

No way wouldn't have a chance to see my kids grow up. For better or worse hehehe . My wife, friends and relatives will be dead at that time. Nope.