Friday, December 6, 2002

CRYONICS CONFERENCE BRINGS OUT NANOTECH'S EXTREME OPTIMISTS By Mark Frauenfelder, Small Times Correspondent NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 6, 2002 - At Alcor's fifth annual Conference on Extreme Life Extension here recently, two well-known scientists presented their visions for the far-out future of nanotechnology. Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas of Zyvex Corp., a nanotechnology and MEMS research and development company in Richardson, Texas, asked the 200 or so conference attendees to imagine a time in the coming decades when doctors will routinely inject billions of nanosized robots into patients' bodies. 11:21:10 AM

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