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    Get your brain downloaded

    I like this idea.
    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
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    If I got myself downloaded, I'd probably get bored, so I'd start working as a crawler for Google or something. What would you do?
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    Hmm that is a scary thought...getting my brain patterns saved on to a machine is freaky...I guess I would collect all other brain patterns merge them together and redownload them and become the smartest person in the world!

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    But what if you absorbed a stupid person's brain? Wouldn't that have an adverse effect?
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    what are the benefits of that? lol how wud u re-insert the info?

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    I would imagine it's more a copy than a move.
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    Does this mean that eventually people won't have to go to school as we will all upload the main things we need to know.

    Then when we want to do a degree we will have to pay for the file to be uploaded

    I can't really envisage this happening in 50 years. It's like when people in the 60's said we would eat meals via a single pill and we would be living on the moon.
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    Youd to the same thing you normaly do on the internet, yep porn!

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    I'd download myself onto the google servers

    Then, I'd upload myself back

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    cool

    So the ghost in the shell stuff really does work.
    next step, get a mechanical body that work with the computer with my brain in it.

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    futurology dept? don't they mean "one too many beers then back to the office" department?

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    Actually, that's kinds scary. Where would you stand legally on data protection? What would stop people reading what's on there, all your memories, all your personal data you know etc? Can you imagine if you done something really naughty as a kid/youth and never told anyone, would they be able to find out? Could it be used to incriminate you? Would the need for a Jury be scrapped? Just get them in court, d/l their brain and search for criminal activites. Self dealt justice if you like!

    Now, uploading to the brain is another story. That 'could' be great, but could also be crap. Can you imagine, never having to go to school? What would kids do from the age of ~5 to ~16? No more college or Uni, no more student debts, just work. Lots and lots of work. And since you'll ALL be as brainy as they next person, you'll all get paid a basic salary and could do whatever job you liked, within reason. Again, rather scary.

    Though saying that, if kids had the intellignce of an adult at the age of 10, would they smoke, drink and have sex as much as they do? I doubt it. They'd use the youthfull years to their best opportunity (as we all wish we did if we're honest).

    Agh, too much to think about! My brain has now melted and I'm off to go upload a new one.

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    I think that possibly a Ghost In The Shell ghost hacking event may become a possibilty at this rate.

    Could be interesting - and imagine the direction l33t speak could take!

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