Nanomedicine and Cryonics Future Salon

Update: Event moved to Tuesday 24th of April

So, you want to live forever? This Future Salon (Tuesday 24th of April) will cover the latest development in the area of Nanomedicine, which has the potential to erase most diseases. Live long enough to live forever, or if you can't live long enough, then give your body a little break via Cryonics.

Presenter Ralph Merkle is one of the top experts in molecular manufacturing. He served for several years as an executive editor of the journal Nanotechnology. He also chaired both the Fourth and Fifth Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology; and won the 1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for theory.

Here the abstract of his talk:

Medicine has made major advances over the past century, and is poised
to advance even more rapidly in the coming decades. Indeed, before
the coming medical revolution has run its course we should all enjoy
much longer and much healthier life spans.

There is, of course, one annoying question: will we still be around
to benefit from all this new technology? Schedules tend to slip,
advances take longer than expected, perhaps the deadline (so to
speak) will pass us by.

We can, however, extend the deadline by cryopreserving ourselves.
Tissue stored at the temperature of liquid nitrogen remains unchanged
for thousands of years. This gives us a crude but effective time
machine, one that will let us reap the benefits of future medical
technology -- medical technologies that we can now see looming on the
horizon but which might not otherwise be developed in time for us to
use. Will future medical technology be able to restore a
cryopreserved human to good health? If so, there is a simple and
effective way for greatly extending our lives -- and a way to see how
the future unfolds.

I have created a wiki page for the collection of links and information about Nanomedicine and Cryonics. Please add your findings.

Please RSVP (http://tinyurl.com/yvmocq) so we can calculate food and drinks and may be even print some name tags again. (Don't hold your breath though :-)

A Future Salon has the following structure: 6-7 networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP. From 7-9+ pm presentation and discussion. SAP Labs North America, Building D, Room Southern Cross or Cafeteria depending on your responds. SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 map As always free and open to the public, spread the news and RSVP (http://tinyurl.com/yvmocq).

Comments

[mila]

related:

The Charlie Rose Science Series, Episode Three - The Science of Living Longer

In this third episode of the Charlie Rose Science Series, we examine the science of living longer with Paul Nurse of The Rockefeller University, Leonard Guarente of M.I.T., Cynthia Kenyon of UC San Francisco, Richard Weindruch of the Wisconsin National Primate Center, Robert Butler, President of the International Longevity Center, Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Sue Levkoff of Harvard Medical School.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7067070349217621336&q=science

enjoy,
-ludm!la

[Mark Finnern]

Hi Mila,

I added that excellent suggestion to the wiki page:
http://www.socialtext.net/futuresalon/index.cgi?nanomedicine_and_cryonics_future_salon

Everyone can sign up and add additional links too.

Thanks for the recommendation, Mark.