I'm downloading my brain

Wipeout · June 6th, 2005, 05:55 PM

"Ian Pearson believes you’ll be able to download your mind, “so when you die it's not a major career problem”.
By 2050 to 2075, you'll be able to download your brain. Technology is advancing that fast!
Pearson points to rapid technological advances of the ps3.
It’s, “1% as powerful as a human brain,” the story has him saying. “It is into supercomputer status compared to 10 years ago. PlayStation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain.”
Would your downloaded mind have a cold, hard computer kind of mentality? Not according to Pearson.
“It would definitely have emotions - that's one of the primary reasons for doing it,” he says in The Observer.
But before downloadable brains, Pearson predicts “ambient intelligence” – chips embedded in very, very thin sheets of polymer that you just literally stick on to the skin like “video tattoos” and which stay there for several days.
“You could even build in cellphones and connect it to the network, use it as a video phone and download videos or receive emails.”
No? Philips is developing the world's first rollable display which is just a millimetre thick and has a 12.5cm screen which can be wrapped around the arm and expects to start production within two years, he emphasises, also predicting that by around 2020, we’ll be spending a lot of time in virtual space, “using high quality, 3D, immersive, computer generated environments to socialise and do business in”
However, a, “massively shared virtual world” is already happening with Solipsis, an awesome French p2p MMORPG from Joaquin Keller, who coincidentally works at the France Telecom Research Center."

http://p2pnet.net/story/4928
Most words in post originate from site above.