Brain downloads 'possible by 2050'

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/23/brain.download/index.html

Monday, May 23, 2005 Posted: 10:06 AM EDT (1406 GMT)


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."





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edit: corrected headline

SOmething to look forward too.

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:) ( best tron bit voice ) yesssss .... Nooooo

And that's without the expanded 16K memory module.

that hasn't been touched in about 20 years, has an inch of dust on it and I bet that it is still smarter than the dumbass in the White House. You could fit a dozen of his intellect in that baby with room for a few cheyneydicks, too.

I'd rather keep my soul where it belongs. Of course, I wouldn't do it.

But, if this thing got more powerful, it is possible to imagine a group of Cyber people that could control the web and the world.

Cyber James Dobson/Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell controlling the world. :scared:

Last I looked, that included Dobson, Robertson, Falwell, and Bauer.

A lot of nerds and libertarians and others will jump at the chance, especially when the alternative is the final decline of their aging body.

Right now it sounds a lot like some BT marketing fool talking about things he knows nothing about. I think the possiblities of a "brain download" are going to be limited more by our lack of knowledge about the brain than by our technology.

Here I was thinking that the 2030's was an awfully optomistic timeframe for cybernization and computers for brains...