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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Max More<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Extrope Robert Bradbury Has Died<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Damn.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Robert, as some of you old-timers will know, was a former director of Extropy Institute. He was an extremely smart guy and a major advocate of (and practical entrepreneur for) life extension and other transhumanist goals.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm not only extremely unhappy to hear of his sudden and unexpected death, but also distressed that he had no arrangements for cryopreservation (to the best of my knowledge). That's quite surprising and, frankly, appalling given Robert's understanding of the technology and future possibilities. This is especially distressing because Alcor has people in Florida, where he died, who could have started the transport and cooldown on very short notice.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Robert had his oddities but was always intelligent and probing and on the side of life. All we can do for him now is remember him. It's something, but it's very little, for he is gone forever.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--- Max<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"David Kekich told me that Robert had not signed up for any cryonic suspension in any form."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This is all very dismaying. I was not a close pal of Robert's, but he wrote a lengthy and excellent piece on his invention, the Matrioshka Brain or MBrain, for my anthology YEAR MILLION, and I quoted him extensively in THE SPIKE; he was a ferment of ideas, with an apparent grasp of diverse technical fields. On one occasion he generously used frequent flyer points he'd accrued in excess to help me fly to the States from Australia to attend a Foresight conference. I gather he burned through a substantial inheritance 15 or 20 years ago trying to get a life-extension research organization to takeoff point, but it was too early and he wasn't Aubrey. A side effect might have been later problems with finances that probably prevented his signing up with Alcor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>He'll be missed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Damien Broderick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Last time he was here (about 3 years ago, for I recall his saying he had turned 50) Robert and I discussed cryonics briefly. His position on it was that he was a tepid believer in it, and might make arrangements if he had sufficient advance notice of his imminent demise. The number of people with this attitude may be larger than those who actually wear a bracelet. I don’t know how to create a business model to deal with that population. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If our fondest hopes with nanotechnology come to pass and fulfill their early promise, it might be that for those carrying the cryonics meme, getting incurable cancer is the best thing that can happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>