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INDEPENDENT (UK): By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain…
...or at least that's what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age – the 'singularity' – when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as Usain Bolt (for 15 minutes) – and even live forever. Is there sense to his science – or is the man who reasons that one day he'll bring his dad back from the grave just a mad professor peddling a nightmare vision of the future?
November 11th, 2009 - 12:40
Now thats an upload that I hope takes a long time.
January 28th, 2010 - 16:06
Hmmm. And what would happen if you flip a bit (or two or…)
August 16th, 2010 - 05:06
Yes, but would ‘it’ be ‘me’? Please listen to Cognitive Entanglement, a chilling essay by Peter Watts.
http://www.starshipsofa.com/20080528/aural-delights-no-26-rudy-rucker/
But also, don’t forget Scientific American said, “Ray Kurzweil, you’re gonna die”.