X-Message-Number: 5670 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:24:59 -0800 From: (David C. Harris) Subject: 01/28 noon: Ralph Merkle @ Humanist Community NOTE: Some of us have been puzzled why the Humanists, who share with cryonicists a naturalistic view of the world, have been resistant to cryonics ideas in the past. I arranged and will be videotaping this renewed attempt to spreak our "meme" into what should be sympathetic minds. - David Harris ---- The announcement as submitted to BA.ANNOUNCE on Tuesday: --------- Ralph Merkle, Ph.D., the noted nanotechnology expert at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, will speak on "Life, Death, and the Future of Medical Technology" on Sunday, January 28, at 12:00 noon in the West Oak Room on the second floor of Stanford's Tressider Student Union building. The talk is FREE. The Humanist Community, which is sponsoring this talk as one of its weekly Forum series, describes the topic thus: "Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular & cellular level. Ralph Merkle, PhD is an authority in a new manufacturing technology often called nanotechnology, that should let us make a wide range of manufactured products with extraordinary precision and low cost. Surgical tools that are molecular both in their size and their precision should be feasible. This should have a revolutionary impact on medicine, permitting us to heal and cure in cases that would today be viewed as utterly beyond hope. The speaker suggests that one application would be cryonics: freezing people who cannot be saved today in the expectation that future medicine will be able to reverse their injuries." For further information call (415) 424-8626 or 969-3630, or visit the budding Humanist Website: http://www.humanists.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- David C. Harris, Medintrans, Box 1257, Palo Alto, CA 94302-1257 or 455 Margarita Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306-2827 Voice: 415-856-9126 (has answering machine or voicemail) E-mail: or or Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5670