Great for deep space travel but I wonder if it might be more humane if you could do it without personality. If we could transfer the intelligence and thinking processes it would be better.
There’s plenty of time for ponderin because I think 2045 is a wildly optimistic timeline. I think 200 years from now is a maybe and even that would be optimistic.
I’ve actually done a fair amount of thinking about this myself as a possible sci fi project. Imagine if you could transfer your consciousness to a couple of dozen near eternal robots for a mission to a distant planet. Meanwhile you could be in hyper sleep for however many thousands of years it took to get there.
When you awoke, I wonder how different you would be from the robot copies of yourself. Especially if they’ve had thousands of years of new experiences and memories. Also each individual robot would also have its own distinct and individual experiences and memories.
Another possibility is human robots taking frozen embryos to a distant planet and raising and teaching the first few generations.
Just the sort of thing I think about in the dark of night.
“Another possibility is human robots taking frozen embryos to a distant planet and raising and teaching the first few generations.”
This is an excellent idea for a story. It seems like it could be a sequel of sorts to Blade Runner.