X-Message-Number: 19771 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Three ideas to improve the odds. Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:20:36 -0700 (1) Study Genrich Altshuller's Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (Russian acronym TRIZ) to see if it can help us make faster progress in brain vitrification. Link to: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/29/altshuller/print.html (2) Use telemedicine to monitor the health of ailing cryonicists and get to them much quicker after cardiac arrest: http://www.digitalangel.net/medical.asp and, http://www.sensatex.com/smartshirt/index.html and, http://www.vivometrics.com/site/system.html (3) Use the advancing state of the art in functional brain imaging to gather external data about how our brains worked when we were alive & reasonably healthy. These data could supply the missing pieces needed by our resuscitators to put us back together some day. Admittedly this is speculative, but what can already be done is pretty impressive: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc20020730_9488.htm Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19771