CRYONICS CONFERENCE BRINGS OUT NANOTECH'S EXTREME OPTIMISTS
By Mark Frauenfelder
Small Times Correspondent
Graphic Designer Robert Freitas

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.