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A vision for the future

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Name: Stuart

Bio: Cultural trend viewer

Area of Expertise: Futurist/Consultant

Topic: Technology

Headline: Space Travel and Living Forever

Nutshell: Human consciousness will be encoded.

Vision:

Human consciousness will be encoded. Space travel is as simple as beaming out copies of your consciousness.
Cloning won’t be a problem; copying your brain will. Media theft? How about consciousness theft?

Human consciousness can live forever in a robot. And eventually, in wetware. The fountain of youth is a factory.

Date Submitted: January 25, 2005

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