X-Message-Number: 496 From: Ralph Merkle <> Subject: Introduction to Cryonics Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1991 15:07:21 PDT Title: Introduction to Cryonics Date: Sunday, October 13, 1991 Time: 7:00 pm Place: The house of Ralph Merkle and Carol Shaw 1134 Pimento Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Phone: 408-730-5224 The business meeting will be from 4:00 to 6:00, the potluck will be from 6:00 to 7:00, the introduction will be from 7:00 to 8:00, with questions, answers, and general discussion continuing thereafter. Everyone is welcome to the potluck and business meeting, as well as the talk. The talk will provide a general overview of likely future medical capabilities, the current status of cryonics, and other information useful to anyone considering cryonics. Bring yourself, relatives, friends, questions, food, etc. For those who missed it, the Sunday edition of the New York Times carried an article titled "And Not a Personal Computer In Sight" by John Markoff (Sunday, October 6, 1991, the first page of the business section). The article was devoted to the groundbreaking research work of Xerox PARC and the influence of John Seely Brown, PARC's director, on that research. The last three paragraphs of the article read: Yet with ubiquitous computing still in its infancy, PARC and Dr. Brown are already polking around for new projects that promise big breakthroughs. Dr. Brown recently assigned one researcher, Ralph Merkle, to work full time on an even more radical approach known as nanotechnology, a speculative discipline based on building computer systems by controlling individual atoms. A few scientists now believe that nanotechnology will make it possible in the next two decades to build computers capable of performing thousands of times faster than today's supercomputers. "This is the manufacturing technology of the 21st century," Mr. [sic] Merkle said. "I'd call this long-range applied research." Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=496