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<DIV>You pay 10 dollars today into the <A
href="http://www.timetravelfund.com/">Time Travel Fund</A>, in a few hundred
years the fund is very rich due to compound interest, so as soon as time travel
technology is developed the fund administrators will pay whoever has this
capability to "rescue" you from the present and bring you into the future world,
where presumably you will live forever as an immortal posthuman. <BR>"The
concept is that one day, it may be possible for people living far in the future
to retrieve you from your current frame of reference (their past - your present)
and bring you into the future (their present - your future)... We establish a
fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few
hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund,
moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you, perhaps seconds after you join,
perhaps even moments before your recorded death, perhaps some other point in
your lifetime. Further, the fund may even pay to have you "rejuvenated"
medically (assuming this is scientifically possible at that time,) and support
you financially for a number of years. (Note: Retrieving you just before the
moment of death is just one possible scenario, but one that would avoid any Star
Trek(TM) type paradoxes. There are an unlimited number of other possibilities,
and we do not know what they will do, we can only make reasonably informed
guesses.)" <BR>I do not think this is a serious initiative, but I believe the
core concept is sound. Even if operational time travel technology (in the sense
of going to the past) is never developed, the technology to acquire information
from the past could be developed someday. Then it would be possible
"anticipating the Omega Point": fetching people from their time and bring them
into their future. Of course the question is, why should they want to do it, and
why should they want to revive you of all people. Offering to pay seems a
reasonable way to motivate them.</DIV></BODY></HTML>