Quote from: Moloch on February 25, 2016, 07:41:44 PM

Quote from: blackbird307 on February 25, 2016, 07:38:35 PM

Quote from: Moloch on February 23, 2016, 08:00:13 PM

Quote from: af_newbie on February 23, 2016, 07:54:10 PM

Now there is your time machine. You do yearly backup when you renew your driver's license. When you die, they'll restore your brain to the year you specified on driver license application. Or it could be a walk-in procedure, you walk in and do a refresh from 10 years ago.

Sort of like the movie Groundhog Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VF5P7qLaEQ

Combined with human cloning they will be able to backup one's brain when he/she is born and then clone him/her, grow him/her, and upload the backup. So people would never really die.

That should be doable within 20-40 years, if not sooner...

The hard part is the clone... that's gonna take another 20 years unless you want to be a baby

40 years? Are you guessing or have you read Kurzweil's book about the singularity?

Just an educated guess based on the progress of the current research

But then again, I thought we'd have flying cars too

Actually I think there are flying care - it's just that they're expensive.
Even so, I think many possible discoveries haven't been invented/revealed because of financial interests in the world. Which is sad.