“You can’t have the technology to wake people up and not have the technology to do a bunch of other great things, like provide abundance to the population.” Su

“You can’t have the technology to wake people up and not have the technology to do a bunch of other great things, like provide abundance to the population.” Sure you can. Just a couple paragraphs previously, you were making the point that cryonics is "just medicine", and medicine and (for example) agronomy advance at very different rates. I can easily imagine a future in which we have the technology and medicine to revive all of the frozen cancer patients, or all of the frozen ALS patients, but are still struggling with drought, climate change, and widespread poverty.