p2pnet - rss feed: I’m downloading my brain
p2pnet.net News :- Ian Pearson believes you’ll be able to download your mind, “so when you die it’s not a major career problem”.
The head of the futurology unit at British Telecom, that’s what he told The Observer, quoted in Guardian Unlimited.
“If you’re rich enough then by 2050 it’s feasible. If you’re poor you’ll probably have to wait until 2075 or 2080 when it’s routine. We are very serious about it. That’s how fast this technology is moving: 45 years is a hell of a long time in IT.”
Pearson points to the rapid advances in computing power demonstrated last week, when Sony released the first details of its PlayStation 3.
It’s, “1% as powerful as a human brain,” the story has him saying. “It is into supercomputer status compared to 10 years ago. PlayStation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain.”
Would your downloaded mind have a cold, hard computer kind of mentality? Not according to Pearson.
“It would definitely have emotions - that’s one of the primary reasons for doing it,” he says in The Observer.
But before downloadable brains, Pearson predicts “ambient intelligence” – chips embedded in very, very thin sheets of polymer that you just literally stick on to the skin like “video tattoos” and which stay there for several days.
“You could even build in cellphones and connect it to the network, use it as a video phone and download videos or receive emails.”
No? Philips is developing the world’s first rollable display which is just a millimetre thick and has a 12.5cm screen which can be wrapped around the arm and expects to start production within two years, he emphasises, also predicting that by around 2020, we’ll be spending a lot of time in virtual space, “using high quality, 3D, immersive, computer generated environments to socialise and do business in”
However, a, “massively shared virtual world” is already happening with Solipsis, an awesome French p2p MMORPG from Joaquin Keller, who coincidentally works at the France Telecom Research Center.
Moreover, Solipsis is open source and running under under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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See:-
The Observer - 2050 - and immortality is within our grasp, May 22, 2005
already happening - P2p meets MMORPG, p2pnet, April 28, 2005
May 23rd, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Anyone remember the outer limits episode about downloading your brain to the computer?
Basically, this guy did it to him self, after he couldn’t get the rights to test it out… and it worked at first, but his personality faded aways slowly, until he was just data of his memories… One of his female coworkers deleted him for him on request… lol
May 23rd, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Sounds like people desparately trying to play God (Yahweh). I believe that this technology will fizzle out or Yahweh will put it stop to it before it is developed. The probability of this technology being used for evil is absolutely frightening. I have a friend who developed a program that could carry on a conversation. Hel deleted the program for fear of how it would be used! Mankind is definitely not ready for this kind of power.
May Yeshua return quickly!
May 24th, 2005 at 1:30 am
Hell, I’d download my brain, but I wouldn’t stop there!
I’d copy myself without end so there’d be thousands of me able to surf the net;)
hahaha, imagine…
May 24th, 2005 at 9:41 am
dude, are you serious………….