Isn cryonics just a wild science-fiction gamble?
We don’t believe so. Especially in light of the beginning development of a new form of technology called nanotechnology — the manipulation of individual atoms or molecules, eventually to build or repair virtually any physical object, including human cells and biological tissue. One of its projected possible applications is the repair of precisely the sort of damage to human tissue caused by freezing at liquid nitrogen temperatures – not to mention cellular and organic damage caused by disease and aging. When will that happen? Robert A. Freitas, author of three-volume text Nanomedicine — selections from which are available via our Links page — has publicly stated, “I would not be surprised if the first cryonics revival was attempted by 2040-2050.” Of course, no one can predict such dates, and we don’t rely on any particular prediction.
