A top futurist at Google says it’s going to be possible by the year 2045:
In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers and become digitally immortal – an event called singularity – according to a futurist from Google.
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, also claims that the biological parts of our body will be replaced with mechanical parts and this could happen as early as 2100.
Kurzweil made the claims during his conference speech at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York at the weekend.
The alleged upside to all this: you’re online forever!
Wow, I had no idea Kurzweil worked at Google. That’s a smart guy – they must be the least impressive bullet on his resume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
Step 1: Write a book that promises baby boomers they will never die.
Step 2: Profit.
Reymont, I don’t know if you’re being facetious or what, but Ray Kurzweil has done many fantastic things in many fields. He basically invented optical character recognition, made the first reading machine for the blind, was a key innovator in digital synthesis — a lot of modern music relies heavily on technology he developed.
Hey Eli — Kurzweil’s book on the singularity (which I think is kinda new age b.s.) came out in 2005. You’re a little late.
Mick Jagger made an action movie about this very thing, it was called FreeJack