X-Message-Number: 2328 From: Ralph Merkle <> Subject: Introduction to The Future of Medicine and CRYONICS Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 16:38:15 PDT Introduction to The Future of Medicine and Cryonics Date: Sunday, July 11 1993 When: 7:00 PM Where: 1134 Pimento Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Speaker: Dr. Ralph C. Merkle For more information on the talk call: 408-730-5224 For more information on cryonics and Alcor, call: 800-367-2228 Dr. Merkle, called "...one of the few mainstream scientific geniuses of the Cryonics movement" by Ed Regis and a researcher in molecular nanotechnology at Xerox PARC, will discuss the implications of research in nanotechnology for future medical capabilities. Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level. From the viewpoint of a cell, today's surgical tools are more suited to rip and tear than to heal and mend. Modern surgery works only because cells have an amazing ability to regroup, bury their dead, and heal over the wounds. In the future we will have molecular surgical tools guided by molecular computers. This will let us, for the first time, actually cure cellular damage. The result will be a quantum leap in our medical technology, and an ability to cure many who are today viewed as utterly beyond medical help. These future medical abilities should let us cure even the freezing damage caused by cryonic suspension: the freezing of the terminally ill (and legally dead) patient to transport them without further deterioration to the medical technology of the 21st or 22nd century, there to be cured and returned to a healthy life. Those interested are also invited to attend the Alcor business meeting, held at 4:00, or the potluck dinner at 6:00; both at the same location as the introduction to cryonics. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2328