X-Message-Number: 14435
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Update on remaining work?
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:45:58 +0100

Yes, I am influenced by this, (or maybe thought of it first, I am not sure
and cannot be bothered to check through the archives to see if this is the
case)

My concept is if you have (say) $60k and want to start a research project,
don't spend the $60k trying to get other people to give you money so as to
complete your project. Instead invest in technology and watch your funding
grow in value and at the same time the technology to perform your
experiments drop in price.  Eventually the two will meet unless you are
tempted to spend the mopeny in the meantime.

In the present atmosphere of accelerating technology growth $60k becomes
$10M between 20 and 30 years, nearer 20. But it probably never would need to
reach that value, because
with a knowledge doubling time of two point something years the work should
become much easier to do as more time passes. As has been stated here,
conventional scientists are not going to do the work needed for reversible
cryopreservation. But they may well get quite close before passing by to
move on in whatever direction conventional wisdom dives them. It is at this
juncture the "little" bit extra to enable reversible cryopreservation can
then be done for less money, using equipment that is also cheaper.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors'
report, an autobio and various other projects:
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----- Original Message ----- > Message #14409
> From: 
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 19:13:36 EDT
> Subject: Update on remaining work?
(del)
> Has anyone been inspired by the time and cost saving exploits of Craig
> Ventor?  Can automation techniques cut the costs way down?  Might it be
> better to rethink plans in terms of the latest techniques than to try to
> raise money? (That's what Ventor did, and cut the genome completion from
> something like 15 years (or five years from when he started) and five or
ten
> billion to something like ten months and 0.2 billion.  The Government
people
> he beat were not exactly slouches -- they used the best techniques
available
> when they started ten years earlier, but Ventor used the best from the
time
> he started, just a few years later, and he annihilated them.
>

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