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."

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