Web resources on cryonics
-- Compiled by Journal staff writer G. Wayne Miller
www.alcor.org
The Web site of The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, provider of cryonics
services, with a comprehensive FAQs page, history, links and more.
www.cryonics.org
Cryonics Institute, of Clinton Township, Mich., provides long-term storage;
Robert C.W. Ettinger, the father of the cryonics movement, is a director.
The institute describes itself as "your last best chance for life -- and
your family's."
www.imm.org
The Institute For Molecular Manufacturing, a nanotechnology resource site.
www.rfreitas.com
The home page of Robert A. Freitas Jr., a research scientist at Zyvex
Corp. in Texas, and previously a research fellow at the Institute for
Molecular Manufacturing in California.
www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/index.html
Visit the Nanomedicine Art Gallery, compiled by Robert A. Freitas Jr.,
to browse artwork that describes many different views of how medical nanorobots
and other nanomedical devices and systems might appear
www.kurzweiltech.com
The homepage of Ray Kurzweil's companies. Kurzweil, an artificial intelligence
expert, has been honored with the National Medal of Technology and inducted
into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He's painted a future in which
humans merge with computers and spend part or all of their lives in virtual
reality.
www.foresight.org
K. Eric Drexler's biography, bibliography, and links. Drexler is a researcher
concerned with emerging technologies and their consequences for the future.
In the mid-1980s, he introduced the term "nanotechnology" to
describe atomically-precise molecular manufacturing systems and their
products.
tedwilliamslastwish.org
Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell's page about her battle to have her father,
Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, cremated, not frozen.
www.americancryonics.org
American Cryonics Society, an advisory group on the subject, also provides
some preservation services, but not long-term storage.
www.suspended.org
Suspended Animation Inc., another company that provides some preservation
services, but not long-term storage.
www.transtime.com
Trans Time, a cryonics company in San Leandro, Calif.
keithlynch.net/cryonet/
Cryonet archives, an inactive bulletin board with a wealth of historical
background about cryonics, compiled by Keith Lynch, secretary of the Life
Extension Society, whose self-described mission is to support research
and public education in human life extension.
Find Web resources on cryonics and its proponents,
as well as previous installments in The Fountain of Youth series at:
http://projo.com/extra/2003/medical_pioneers/
