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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:50:24 -0400
Subject: Hooray...some fine postings on Cryonet!
From: Rudi Hoffman <>

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Now THIS is more like it...

I found the postings by Perry Metzger and Robert Ettinger most compelling on
this morning's Cryonet.

Observations by Mark Plus (I think...sorry if I got this attribution wrong,
Mark) about the unlikely emergence of nanotech in 25 years...not so much.

Having had extensive discussions with (nanotechnologist and Alcor board
member) Ralph Merkle regarding this very issue, and having been a Drexler
fan, and Foresight Senior Associate for a long time, and having read parts
of...but not fully understood, Rob Freitas's "Nanomedicine." this topic is
of personal interest.  And should be an obsessive interest to all serious
cryonicists.

There is a large gap between "nanotech fabric pants" (which I have on
currently as I write this, btw,) and true MNT.  Molecular manufacturing
technology...especially done in a non-liquid environment that will almost
certainly be necessary for cryonics resuscitation, is, as reported, sadly
underfunded and moving slowly.  Until spending several hours learning the
distinctions from Ralph Merkle, I did not really understand the differences
in "general nanotech" vs. non-liquid and cold temperature MNT.

Not surprisingly, Ralph is rather desperately looking for long term angel
funders for TRUE MNT research and development.

So, perhaps we should all be as precise as possible in our terms when
discussing the likelihood of "nanotech in 25 years."

For what it is worth, and I don't pretend to be anything but a well read
dilettante in this field, I think it will take 200 years of progress to
reach MNT.  But, as Kurzwiel cleverly presages, this 200 years of progress
will almost certainly occur during the next 25 years, due to accelerating
and overlapping research.  People who think this is nuts should subscribe to
the weekly feed from Kurzweil's push email.  Breakthroughs are happening
virtually every day...and eventually these will evolve and emerge as fully
developed nanotech.  As William Gibson has wriley observed, "The future is
already here...it is just unevenly distributed."

So, I am off to hop in the motor home to take a short trip celebrating my
wife's birthday, today!

Warm Regards to all sentient creatures reading these lines,

Rudi


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Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU ChFC

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