The book could have ended after the end of Chapt. 4. The rest of it is social, political and economic commentary hardly having to do with super anything, only a list of complaints about being human and solutions an 11 year old would write. Ettinger said everything I was interested in hearing in the second half of Chpt. 4. To fill it out at the end, he restated his cryonics ideas from the 1962 book that made him famous, Prospect of Immortality. It turns out that Ettingers' Chpt 4 gets close to Edward W. Russel's 1985 "Prospect for Eternity"... and that overlap is what I'll focus on from here on.
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