| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156019] |
Mon, 23 May 2005 15:06  |
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London, England -- By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.
Ian Pearson, head of British Telecom's futurology unit, told the UK's Observer newspaper that the rapid advances in computing power would make cyber-immortality a reality within 50 years.
Pearson said the launch last week of Sony's PlayStation 3, a machine 35 times more powerful than the model it replaced, was a sign of things to come.
"The new PlayStation is one percent as powerful as the human brain," Pearson told the Observer. "It is into supercomputer status compared to 10 years ago. PlayStation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain."
Pearson said that brain-downloading technology would initially be the preserve of the rich, but would become more available over subsequent decades.
"If you're rich enough then by 2050 it's feasible. If you're poor you'll probably have to wait until 2075 or 2080 when it's routine," he said.
"We are very serious about it. That's how fast this technology is moving: 45 years is a hell of a long time in IT."
Pearson also predicted that it would be possible to build a fully conscious computer with superhuman levels of intelligence as early as 2020.
IBM's BlueGene computer can already perform 70.72 trillion calculations a second and Pearson said the next computing goal was to replicate consciousness.
"We're already looking at how you might structure a computer that could become conscious. Consciousness is just another sense, effectively, and that's what we're trying to design in computer."
Pearson said that computer consciousness would make feasible a whole new sphere of emotional machines, such as airplanes that are afraid of crashing.
By 2020 Pearson also predicted the creation of a "virtual world" of immersive computer-generated environments in which we will spend increasing amounts of time, socializing and doing business.
He said: "When technology gives you a life-size 3D image and the links to your nervous system allow you to shake hands, it's like being in the other person's office. It's impossible to believe that won't be the normal way of communicating."
But Pearson admitted that the consequences of advancing technologies needed to be considered carefully.
"You need a complete global debate," he said. "Whether we should be building machines as smart as people is a really big one."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/23/brain.download/
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156046] |
Mon, 23 May 2005 16:46  |
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We will be living on the moon by the mid 1980's
Flying cars by 2015
..and on and on.
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156048] |
Mon, 23 May 2005 16:57 |
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Why doesn't anyone ever listen to those doomsday movies about sentient robots? IE, The Matrix or Terminator? :-\
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156109] |
Tue, 24 May 2005 06:10 |
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Lol this article is funny. I can tell you right now that this won't happen in 50 years. Although PCs have exponentially increased in power, a wall has been hit with PCs and they will not increase in performance as fast as they usedto do for a while.
Yes dual cores are coming out and so on, but the price to performance ratio still doesn't justify it yet. As for downloading your mind into a computer, it would be hard to download tissue into a computer. You can't take an image of a brain, you can't "read" it and upload it. It's extremely absurd.
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156110] |
Tue, 24 May 2005 06:19 |
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As for downloading your mind into a computer, it would be hard to download tissue into a computer. You can't take an image of a brain, you can't "read" it and upload it. It's extremely absurd.
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Theoretically, you don't need to. You only need to know the synaptic nodes' connections to each other, and the current values that they hold. You could then create a brain "emulator" and proceed where your brain left off. The precision required for such (both in space and in time, since your brain is ever-changing) would be damn-near impossible, though... at least, in any time soon.
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156123] |
Tue, 24 May 2005 07:09 |
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Lol, the brain is a little more complex than that. People have done experiemnts to find out how the brain holds information. But even now they still can't figure out how the brain couples together information exactly. Let alone read it.
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156128] |
Tue, 24 May 2005 07:17 |
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Downloading your brain wouldn't even be you anyways. It would just be a copy. It's not like you would feel like you were in the computer or anything. What will they have next, Robotic clones?
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156162] |
Tue, 24 May 2005 10:58 |
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We will be living on the moon by the mid 1980's
Flying cars by 2015
..and on and on.
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Heh, and flying cars already exist (well, "sky cars")
http://www.moller.com/skycar/
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They have existed for a long time. The military experimented with flying cars back in the 50s and 60s but you still don't see them in commercial production or out on the street do you?
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| Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156181] |
Tue, 24 May 2005 12:52 |
WinterFresh
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Dude I've seen this car on TV or a earlier model about 4 years ago. They're not going to be coming out any time soon commercially because you simply cannot operate them for a long time or operate them effectively.
It takes a lot of skill to fly one of those things and a lot of fuel.
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