2050: The Year of the Brain Download
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 at
8:17 am
Maybe we’re not too far off from the future imagined by Altered Carbon and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. From CNN:
By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.Ian Pearson, head of British Telecom’s futurology unit, told the UK’s Observer newspaper that the rapid advances in computing power would make cyber-immortality a reality within 50 years.
I suddenly have this impending inferiority complex that my brain can be captured on a 5.25″ floppy disk.
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In your case John, I think a 3″ floppy is more appropriate.
Yes yes, I know they hold more, it’s the 3″s that make the joke.
Ok, to be serious.
Mr. Pearson says that computing power will make brain downloading possible within 50 years. Well, ok, but what about about the actual brain downloading part? Just because computers will be fast/small enough to mimic a brain, we still have to figure out how to transcribe a person’s brain. Where is the work being done on that?
For halloween I shall spirit-gum the end of a wireless card out of the base of my skull and go as next-generation man.
i had done my msc.physics with specialisation in electronics from osmania university . i got this idea some 6 years back. but i neglected and i did not apply for patent. brain download can be certainly possible . i hope that by 2015 this could be made
I recall one proposed technique was to sever the corpus callosum and connect it to a computer, as it is like the data cable between the two hemispheres