"50 years from now we won't need to buy a computer. We will have a chip implanted in our head powered by bio electrical energy. It will be wireless and we can just think to each other rather than e-mail. We will have a separate program which will profitably trade stocks 24 hours a day without any action on our part.
We won't have money as it will be electronic funds transfer directly into our brains.
Drugs, alcohol and sex will be unnecessary as we will have implanted simulators which will cause endorphins to be pumped directly into our bloodstream. Our bodies will be useless so we will just be brains in jars."
2005: Brain in a Jar post from 2005
My brain in a jar Honey, where's the remote?
My brain in a jar gets closer Honda says brain waves control robot!
My brain in a jar gets closer Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip
One step closer to my brain in a jar. Broadband broadcast thru your body. 2005
Today:
We'll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045
In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers and become digitally immortal - an event called singularity - according to a futurist from Google.
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, also claims that the biological parts of our body will be replaced with mechanical parts and this could happen as early as 2100.
Kurweil made the claims during his conference speech at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York at the weekend.
'Research has shown that people actually begin to subjectively identify with their avatar.
'But in the future it's not going to be a little picture in a virtual environment you're looking at. It will feel like this is your body and you're in that environment and your body is the virtual body and it can be as realistic as real reality.
'So we'll be routinely able to change our bodies very quickly as well as our environments. If we had radical life extension only we would get profoundly bored and we would run out of thing to do and new ideas.
'In additional to radical life extension we're going to have radical life expansion.
'We're going to have million of virtual environments to explore that we're going to literally expand our brains - right now we only have 300 million patterns organised in a grand hierarchy that we create ourselves.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 19 June 2013 - 10:42 PM.
