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/
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          or     455 Margarita Ave.,   Palo Alto, CA  94306-2827
Voice: 415-856-9126 (has answering machine or voicemail)
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