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The Digital Immortality Institute explores three factors necessary for digital immortality. First, at whatever level of implementation, avatars require guaranteed Internet accessibility. Next, avatars must be what users specify, and they must remain so. Finally, future representations must be secured before the living users are no more. [11]
The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley envisions a scenario where that cannot happen. In the story, there is a computer which can confer immortality on individuals. In doing so, it also alters their minds in a way that removes negative qualities and preconceived notions.
Ray Kurzweil in 2006. Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and serial entrepreneur. When The Age of Spiritual Machines was published he had already started four companies: Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. which created optical character recognition and image scanning technology to assist the blind, Kurzweil Music Systems, which developed music synthesizers with high quality emulation of real ...
The pursuit of longevity has been taken to new heights by millionaire tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, who is at the forefront of the movement looking for new ways to reverse aging and extend ...
Bryan Johnson, tech entrepreneur and Founder of Blueprint, poses for a portrait at his home. Johnson follows a strict diet and lifestyle routine in an attempt to reduce his biological age.
Even in this tough economic climate, Americans are spending money on computers. Before the recession, owners with slow or outdated computers were apt to just junk them and get new ones.
An important aspect of current scientific thinking about immortality is that some combination of human cloning, cryonics or nanotechnology will play an essential role in extreme life extension. Robert Freitas , a nanorobotics theorist, suggests tiny medical nanorobots could be created to go through human bloodstreams, find dangerous things like ...
This week, Google released a research paper chronicling one of its latest forays into artificial intelligence. Researchers at the company programmed an advanced type of "chatbot" that learns how ...