Computers and Society Food For Thought Page 7 "The Problem" March 1995 Making the Dead Live On: An Interactive, Talking Picture of a Deceased Person Edwin Bos NIC1, The Netherlands bos@nici.kun.nl Introduction Arguably ever since the second generation of Homo Sapiens, people have pondered about immortality, asking themselves why they can't live forever. Somewhere halfway this century, several people came up with actual scenarios of how everlasting life might be achieved. First science fiction writers (e.g., Arthur C. Clarke), then respected scientists worked out diverse scenarios. There is the cryonics scenario, which proposes to freeze the brains of deceased, so that sometime in the distant future when science will have made sufficient progress, these brains can be thawed out and the "relatively dead" can enter a new life cycle. There is Drexler's nanotechnology scenario, in which tiny little robots continuously repair the dying ceils while you are alive, keeping you forever young. Yet another scenario is that of Moravec, who wants to get dd of the body in which we are kept prisoner. He proposes to "download" ourselves onto digital storage media, copying the information of each neuron one by one onto disk. For an elaborate description of
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Making the dead live on: an interactive, talking picture of a deceased person
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