Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine

Associated Press ^ | Jun 15, 2013 6:02 PM EDT | Peter Svensson

[Olog-hai]

Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so.

Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity’s best brains—and a few robots—in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies. Itskov, who looks younger than his 32 years, has an aggressive timetable in which he’d like to see milestones toward that goal met:

• By 2020, robots we can control remotely with our brains.
• By 2025, a scenario familiar to watchers of sci-fi cartoon show “Futurama:” the capability to transplant the brain into a life-support system, which could be a robot body. Essentially, a robot prosthesis that can replace an ailing, perhaps dying body.
• By 2035, the ability to move the mind into a computer, eliminating the need for the robot bodies to carry around wet, messy brains.
• By 2045, technology nirvana in the form of artificial brains controlling insubstantial, hologram bodies. …

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of the Orthodox Church in America, who has a background in neurobiology and physics, offered another critique at the conference. “A lot of this stuff can’t be done,” he said. …

[mylife]

[2banana]

All running on a Windows based platform.

What could go wrong?

[Regulator]

Oh Good, a new orientation category to worry about....Robosexual

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

—— Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of the Orthodox Church in America, who has a background in neurobiology and physics, offered another critique at the conference. “A lot of this stuff can’t be done,” he said -——

A human being is more than ones and zeros. But stupidity springs eternal.

[rickmichaels]

[COBOL2Java]

[Dalberg-Acton]

Does this mean George Soros will live forever? I was really hoping to outlive that bastard.

[HomeAtLast]

By 2020, robots we can control remotely with our brains.

So, if we can forestall "immigration reform" another 7 years, we won't be needing all those people who do the work we don't want to do?

[HomeAtLast]

Reminds me of the old TZ episode wherein an elderly couple shops for new, young bodies, but can only afford one transplant.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The last time I heard of something similar to this, it didn't turn out too well.

 

 

Exterminate!