PRESS DELETE!The Futures of Death

Paul Coulton and Selina Ellis Gray

– William Gibson, Neuromancer

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

Star Trek to StarTAC

Martian

Future

Present FutureTime

Probable Plausible Possible

Josepth Voros

Present

History, Reality,and Fiction

Past

Future

Gonzatto, R. F., van Amstel, F. M., Merkle, L. E., & Hartmann, T. (2013). The ideology of the future in design fictions. Digital creativity, 24(1), 36-45.

CryonicsAdded to the many miracles performed by modern science that have accounted for the saving of thousands and thousands of human beings, comes its newest and most modern discovery -- frozen therapy.Estimates of how long frozen therapy can produce a state of suspended animation range from days to years. But on the fact that diseases can be arrested -- that life can be prolonged, by freezing human beings in ice, the medical world agrees.In research hospitals today, men and women are alive and breathing -- their bodies encased in ice.

Alaskan Wood FrogsIn winter while frozen, the frog stops breathing, its heart stops beating, its blood stops flowing, and it cannot move.In the spring the frog’s body thaws and returns to normal life.

$200,000.00 Whole Body Cryopreservation. $ 80,000.00 Neurocryopreservation.

Bridesicles

Love Minus Eighty by Will Macintosh

– Ray Kurzweil Engineering Director at Google

“A technological singularity is a predicted point in the development of a civilization at which technological progress accelerates beyond the ability of present-day humans to fully comprehend or predict.”

Be Right Back (Black Mirror)

HUMAI - Human Resurrection Through Artificial Intelligence

The Girl Who Died (Dr Who)

Speculative DesignPresent

Future

Domestication

TechnologyEmergence

Alternate Presentsor Lost Futures

Speculative Futures

Past

adapted from James Auger

Bel GeddesFuturama 1939

Auger-Loizeau's Afterlife

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