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If you could guarantee me immortality with my body frozen at 21 (or even 41), I might jump at the chance.

Even that might not be all it's cracked up to be...

Well to paraphrase Captain Kirk, "Who said anything about a new constitutional convention. We're taking over." We as a world, not a nation need to sit down and have a talk about the government we think we want to have and start living by them. However we arrange the economy, we will end up not sending taxes to the old system and taking care of the underprivileged that were useful to the old system, that despite whatever hold the old system may have over the military, it will collapse. Have some reading: http://www.lightspeedmagazine....

I am not sure what bears would do with weapons. How are they going to use them while we have their arms?

I guess you never read "Bears Discover Fire" (full text of the short story)

Oh, there's so, so much further that advertising can go:

http://www.lightspeedmagazine....

Maneki Neko by Bruce Sterling ...which you can read for free right here:

http://www.lightspeedmagazine....

When I see this topic, I think of "Snow" by John Crowley:

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/snow/

A husband whose wife recently died is offered the chance to watch a record of his wife's lifetime.

I don't mind being recorded, and despite not having a very good memory, I don't record much of my life either. Not much I really NEED to remember vividly I suppose, I still remember the emotions, regret, fondness, etc. But with the birth of my son and so much to be thankful for right now, I'm thinking I will start to record more, for the day when I can't remember things I'll cherish most about my life.

Should we make a concerted effort to send radio messages to Tau Ceti? We have not yet done so, although brief messages have been sent in the direction of other stars. Messages have been constructed which could be decoded without any external info. Maybe we should be sending those regularly to Tau Ceti and listening regularly for a reply starting 24 years from sending. It's not an expensive project.

Here's an article I just read this morning that seems appropriate:

You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/you-never-get-a-seventh-chance-to-make-a-first-impression-an-awkward-history-of-our-space-transmissions/

Here's an article I just read this morning that seems appropriate, given Carl Sagan and his discs:

You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/you-never-get-a-seventh-chance-to-make-a-first-impression-an-awkward-history-of-our-space-transmissions/