[GrandJediMasterYoda]

So in other words hell on earth is near.

[RC one]

The mind can be saved on a hard drive. The soul, however, can not.

[usconservative]

The problem with your assumption that “hell on earth is near” is that Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the democrat party have a brain to upload ........

[Celtic Conservative]

Not sure I believe this. I am still waiting for my flying car,and high speed monorails stretching from coast to coast.

CC

[Secret Agent Man]

good luck with that. jesus will do a far better job restoring me to an even better state than i’m in now.

[BraveMan]

I’ll never make it. Probably a blessing to both me and the rest of the world.

[ken in texas]

640K will be enough for most low information voters.

[Bernard Marx]

Looking forward to that great robot sex!

[bigheadfred]

and they will upload the first 16 billion in .000023 seconds

[NonValueAdded]

BSOD will have a whole new meaning

[billorites]

In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

[YHAOS]

Is that just a few years before, or just a few years after, Manhattan goes under three feet of water due to global warming?

[I want the USA back]

No, to both predictions.

This comes from a materialistic view of human life. In it, humans are just deterministic machines. So is a computer. So, in the incompletely formed mind of this ‘scientist’, you can upload a human mind to a computer.

Pity.

[TomGuy]

There will still be those who have little to contribute.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Please tell me Microsoft isn’t in charge???

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Why would anyone want to do that?

[HarleyD]

And if these predictions comes true, it could make humans immortal

Until a deadly computer virus comes along and wipes out machinekind.

[Billthedrill]

I like a feller with imagination, but color me skeptical. We are so far from understanding what is even meant by “mind” that any projections of engineering progress along those lines are nonsense in the precise meaning of the word. It isn’t data. We’re pretty good at slinging data from one place and form to another, true - were it a matter of that, you could pretty much project next year and probably not be too far off. But mind, consciousness, soul - these are emergent phenomena, not explicable from a model of the system components. And Gilbert Ryle despite, there really does appear to be a Ghost In The Machine. We don’t even understand the machine yet.

[Gasshog]

Hmm...ask the Krell how becoming “gods” worked out for them. :)

[Bobalu]

Humans will become immortal (at least until an accident takes them) but as biological creatures..not as machines.

Nanotechnology will allow for endless repair/replacement/alteration of the human body but IMO the human mind will never be able to be stored on some device.

In the near future nearly everything will disposable. Very few people will need to work. People will live for an awfully long time.

I wonder how different the world will be when everyone can look however they wish, live as long as they desire, procure nearly any item they want and have enormous amounts of leisure time.

[vpintheak]

No, we won’t.