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Cryonics in popular culture: различия между версиями
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== Television == | == Television == | ||
1990 L.A. Law features a character suing the state for her constitutional right to be frozen alive as she has an inoperable brain tumor.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0624130/</ref> | 1990 L.A. Law features a character suing the state for her constitutional right to be frozen alive as she has an inoperable brain tumor.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0624130/</ref> | ||
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The original ''[[Deus Ex]]'' has a secret area that the player can access, where former Illuminati (lol) leader [http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Lucius_DeBeers Lucius DeBeers] (Like the diamond company, get it? Nevermind...) was stored in a 'cryo pod' by his protegé, co-conspirator Morgan Everett, until the technology to revive him can be invented. Unknown to him, the technology has been available for some time, but Everett refuses to revive him to maintain power. Somehow DeBeers can continue to talk and think in the pod, and can talk to the player, who can tell him the truth; in which case DeBeers asks the player to kill him. | The original ''[[Deus Ex]]'' has a secret area that the player can access, where former Illuminati (lol) leader [http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Lucius_DeBeers Lucius DeBeers] (Like the diamond company, get it? Nevermind...) was stored in a 'cryo pod' by his protegé, co-conspirator Morgan Everett, until the technology to revive him can be invented. Unknown to him, the technology has been available for some time, but Everett refuses to revive him to maintain power. Somehow DeBeers can continue to talk and think in the pod, and can talk to the player, who can tell him the truth; in which case DeBeers asks the player to kill him. | ||
== Other media == | == Other media == | ||
Alex Harris from Simon Funk's ''[[Transhumanist Fiction#After Life|After Life]]'' had his body cryopreserved by Alcor after he died while being [[Whole | Alex Harris from Simon Funk's ''[[Transhumanist Fiction#After Life|After Life]]'' had his body cryopreserved by Alcor after he died while being [[Whole brain emulation|uploaded]]. | ||
In Greg Egan's ''[[Transhumanist Fiction#Zendegi|Zendegi]]'', ultra-rationalist internet millionaire Nate Caplan is cryopreserved due to a terminal condition. Another character, an oil tycoon whose enthusiasm in a Senate hearing cut funding to a project to scan an entire human brain, was also cryopreserved after his death. | In Greg Egan's ''[[Transhumanist Fiction#Zendegi|Zendegi]]'', ultra-rationalist internet millionaire Nate Caplan is cryopreserved due to a terminal condition. Another character, an oil tycoon whose enthusiasm in a Senate hearing cut funding to a project to scan an entire human brain, was also cryopreserved after his death. | ||