Tomorrow morning at 8a EST I’ll appear on ABC’s Good Morning America, talking about cryonics. [Added:] The part on cryonics is at minutes 28:30-33:45 here; I’m at 31:50-32:50. Just my episode can be found here:
Some quotes are here. The show has 4.6 million viewers! So I had about as many TV viewers today as I’ve had blog post visits ever.
Added: Britney Spears is apparently a new cryonics customer.
James Oswald They won’t know what hit ‘em.
nazgulnarsil Do we really want the viewership of Good Morning America there in the glorious future with us?
JGWeissman Yes.
Abelard Lindsey The reaction should be interesting. A very good friend of mine, who is active in cryonics, made the comment to me once that “cryonics pisses people off”. I think this is true. It seems that whenever cryonics becomes the subject of a conversation, people start jumping up and down like organ-grinder’s monkeys even when they have no personal interest in it.
Cardoza GMA and all the similar TV outlets are ‘highly-produced’ (controlled) media presentations… with short superficial segments, no matter what the topic.
Perhaps you can give us some insight later… on the behind-the-scenes setup. No doubt the GMA staff will pre-interview you… and give you some hints on how they want that brief segment to proceed & generally what they expect you to say.
Free national TV publicity is good (?)… but that venue is a bit hard to stomach.
Try not to freeze up!
Also of interest is the Through the Wormhole episode on immortality.
http://science.discovery.com/videos/through-the-wormhole-can-we-live-forever/
Good season for cryonics publicity lately. 
Andy McKenzie Robin, I’m not sure if that link was sarcastic, but if not, I think you will learn to distrust British newspapers. It’s my #2 rule of the internet. Congrats on the appearance though–I enjoyed the macbook shots.
Even Satoshi Kanazawa thinks their standards are too low.
Anonymous For anyone in Canada who can’t view the above link, here is a link that does work: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/life-ice-world-crazy-cryogenics/story?id=14167348
[...] the end of that ABC Good Morning America segment on cryonics, they pointed viewers to a poll on “Would you have your body cryonically frozen [...]
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