TRANS TIME Cryonics Intro -- Nanotechnology and Revival

Nanotechnology and the
Prospect of Revival

(Under Construction)

From Tim Freeman's FAQ:

If these frozen people are revived, will it be easy to cure them of whatever disease made them clinically die?

Repairing the freezing damage looks much harder than curing any existing disease, so if revival is possible then curing the disease ought to be trivial. This doesn't include diseases that lose information in the brain, such as Alzheimer's, mental retardation, or brain tumors; in these cases, even if the disease were cured and the person revived, the problem of replacing the lost information looks hard.

If I'm frozen and then successfully revived, will my body be old?

No. Old age is a disease that ought to be easier to cure than the freezing damage.

A Door to the Future -- Chapter 9, Engines of Creation, K. Eric Drexler, Foresight Institute

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