Ever since Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals' experiment succeeded, Professor Glanster and his experiment had been caught in the eye of a public opinion storm. For a time, the topic was even hotter than the BFR rocket heading for Mars.
Opinions on Human Cryopreservation Hibernation Technology varied wildly, but the overwhelming majority of ordinary people opposed it.
Even if it could offer terminally ill patients a chance to keep living, the cost of keeping a cryogenic facility running for decades was, no matter how one looked at it, not an expense ordinary people could afford.
If such technology was destined to serve only the upper classes while the social costs it created were passed on to "those who remained awake," then the lower classes seemed to have no reason to support its existence.
A Dutch performance artist even painted a satirical oil painting about it. A mummy frozen inside an ice coffin sat upon a throne, while a group of well-dressed servants knelt before it on one knee, their shackles leading a crowd of ragged slaves. It satirized wealthy people who wished to go to the future and enjoy endless prosperity, portraying them as no different from pharaohs thousands of years ago.
A North American science fiction writer used even sharper prose to depict a dystopian society ruled by ice coffins that would never awaken, along with servants who never wanted their masters to wake up.
In that dystopian society, people lived in extreme poverty, social development had stagnated, and class divisions had become so rigid that almost no one could rise through their own efforts. After all, most wealth was monopolized by those "immortals" and their servants.
Though these views were somewhat one-sided in a sense, the issues they raised did indeed attract the attention of many insightful people.
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