{"product_id":"jameson-satellite-paperback-1","title":"Jameson Satellite - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJameson Satellite\u003c\/strong\u003e first appeared in July 1931 issue of \u003cstrong\u003eAmazing Storie\u003c\/strong\u003es. The hero, \u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Jameson\u003c\/strong\u003e, was obsessed with the idea of perfectly preserving his body after death and succeeded by having it launched into space in a satellite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJameso\u003c\/strong\u003en's cryopreserved body survived in suspended animation for 40,000,000 years, when it was found orbiting planet Earth by a passing cyborg exploration ship. The cyborgs, who descended from a race of biological beings achieved immortality by transferring their brains to neural-net circuitry inside machine bodies, like the Borg of the Star Trek series.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe cyborgs discovered that \u003cstrong\u003eJameson\u003c\/strong\u003e's body had been so well preserved that they were able to repair his brain, incorporate it into a machine body and restart it. \u003cstrong\u003eJameson Satellite\u003c\/strong\u003e proved so popular with readers that later installments became some of the most popular and well-known of the 1930s pulps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing cryopreserved and revived is an idea that would recur in hundreds of science fiction novels, movies, and television shows. One young science fiction fan who read \u003cstrong\u003eJameson Satellite\u003c\/strong\u003e and drew inspiration from the idea of \u003cstrong\u003ecryonics\u003c\/strong\u003e was \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Ettinger\u003c\/strong\u003e, who founded the \u003cstrong\u003eCryonics Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e and the related \u003cstrong\u003eImmortalist Society\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eEttinger\u003c\/strong\u003e, who once said \"\u003cem\u003eBy working hard and saving my money, I intend to become an immortal superman.\u003c\/em\u003e\" became cryopreserved after his death in July 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJameson Satellite\u003c\/strong\u003e also inspired \u003cstrong\u003eWoody Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e's \"\u003cstrong\u003eSleeper\u003c\/strong\u003e\" futuristic science fiction comedy. The plot involves the adventures of \u003cstrong\u003eMiles Monroe\u003c\/strong\u003e who goes into the hospital for an ulcer in 1973 but when the surgery goes awry he is \u003cstrong\u003ecryogenically frozen\u003c\/strong\u003e and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly led police state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsaac Asimov\u003c\/strong\u003e also read the story and cites \u003cstrong\u003eJameson Cyborgs\u003c\/strong\u003e as the \"\u003cem\u003espiritual ancestors\u003c\/em\u003e\" of his \u003cstrong\u003epositronic robot\u003c\/strong\u003e series and credits them as the origin of his attraction to the idea of benevolent robots. \u003cstrong\u003eMasamune Shirow\u003c\/strong\u003e's cyborg-populated \u003cstrong\u003eGhost in the Shell\u003c\/strong\u003e saga where named \u003cstrong\u003eJameson-type cyborgs\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday we either bury dead brains or burn them which result in irreversible loss of personhood information due to the destruction of the brain tissue that houses a person's unique \u003cstrong\u003eneural-net circuitry\u003c\/strong\u003e. So far the only practical alternative is to \u003cstrong\u003evitrify\u003c\/strong\u003e or \u003cstrong\u003ecryopreserve\u003c\/strong\u003e the brain and store it indefinitely at -196  C using \u003cstrong\u003eliquid nitrogen\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEven the best \u003cstrong\u003evitrification techniques\u003c\/strong\u003e still produce massive cell damage that no current or even medium-term technology can likely reverse. But the shortcomings of early twenty-first century science and engineering hardly foreclose the technology options that will be available in a century and far less so in a millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome future \u003cstrong\u003ebiocomputing technology\u003c\/strong\u003e may extract and thus back-up this defining \u003cstrong\u003eneural information\u003c\/strong\u003e or \u003cstrong\u003ewetware\u003c\/strong\u003e. Currently, there are more than 250 brains suspended in liquid nitrogen in the US and more than 3,000 people have already signed up to have their brains, or whole bodies, cryopreserved in suspended animation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStanley Kubrick\u003c\/strong\u003e, director of \"\u003cstrong\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/strong\u003e\" film hailed the promise of cryonic suspension in his 1968 Playboy interview. Kubrick cast death as a problem of bioengineering: \"\u003cem\u003eDeath is no more natural or inevitable than smallpox or diphtheria. Death is a disease and as susceptible to cure as any other disease\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeil Ronald Jones pioneered cyborg and robotic characters, and is credited with inspiring the modern idea of cryonics. Most of his stories fit into a \"future history\" like that of Robert A. 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