THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY IN BILINGUAL AMERICAN ENGLISH AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE - by Robert C.W. Ettinger with a new (2010) foreword by the author (2010 ) -- Sinclair T. Wang, Translator -- is available in hardback (ISBN 978-1-934297-00-1) and paperback (ISBN 978-1-934297-01-8) editions. HERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1964): In the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored The Prospect of ...
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THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY IN BILINGUAL AMERICAN ENGLISH AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE - by Robert C.W. Ettinger with a new (2010) foreword by the author (2010 ) -- Sinclair T. Wang, Translator -- is available in hardback (ISBN 978-1-934297-00-1) and paperback (ISBN 978-1-934297-01-8) editions. HERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1964): In the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored The Prospect of Immortality. Ettinger sees "discontinuity in history, with mortality and humanity on one side -- on the other immortality and transhumanity." Cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term suspended animation) of humans may provide a "door into summer" unlike any season previously known. Ettinger argues for his belief in "the possibility of limitless life for our generation." 1960 ( ) " - " " " " " KEYWORDS: biostasis; cryonics; death; future medicine; immortality; life extension; personal identity; suspended animation; technological singularity; transhumanism. HERE IS A TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE BILINGUAL (IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH AND/OR YOUR CHINESE?) BOOK OF 552 PAGES: ((CONTENTS IN ENGLISH: )) ---Preface by the Translator viii ---FOREWORD 2010 BY ROBERT ETTINGER xxii ---Preface by Jean Rostand 2 ---Preface by Gerald J. Gruman 12 ---Chapter I. Frozen Death, Frozen Sleep, and Some Consequences 28 ---Chapter II. The Effects of Freezing and Cooling 52 ---Chapter III. Repair and Rejuvenation 140 ---Chapter IV. Today's Choices 184 ---Chapter V. Freezers and Religion 220 ---Chapter VI. Freezers and the Law 264 ---Chapter VII. The Economics of Immortality 302 ---Chapter VIII. The Problem of Identity 364 ---Chapter IX. The Uses of Immortality 398 ---Chapter X. Manners, Modes, and Morals of Tomorrow 428 ---Chapter XI. The Freezer-Centered Society 468 ---References 497 ((CONTENTS IN CHINESE: )) --- ix ---ROBERT ETTINGER 2010 xxiii ---Jean Rostand 3 ---Gerald J. Gruman 13 --- 29 --- 53 --- 141 --- 185 --- 221 --- 265 --- 303 --- 365 --- 399 --- 429 --- 469 --- 497
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