Keith Henson - Cryonics

Cryonics

In 1985, having been convinced by Eric Drexler that nanotechnology provided a route to make it work, Henson, his wife, and their two-year old daughter signed up with Alcor for cryonic suspension. Henson's daughter was the youngest member ever signed up to Alcor. Following the Dora Kent problems, Henson became increasingly active with Alcor. After Alcor had to freeze their chief surgeon, he learned enough surgery to put several cryonics patients on cardiac bypass. He also wrote a column for Alcor’s magazine, Cryonics, for a few years. Henson persuaded Timothy Leary to become an Alcor Member-although Leary eventually dropped his membership.

In that same year, Henson moved to Silicon Valley, consulting for a number of firms, and eventually debugging garbage collection software for the last stage of Project Xanadu. He was still working for the company that bought the Xanadu license when Scientology lawyer Helena Kobrin tried to destroy the news group alt.religion.scientology. and later e-mailed legal warnings to participants who had quoted as few as six lines of Scientology texts.