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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

We've got flying cars already. But nobody wants or need them.

For the cloning part, I'd say much more than that especially because there no real use to it. We still can't implement the life experience, the thoughts, and we will probably never be able to do so. Hence a clone would be a totally different person.

Hmm, that brings another question: Is talent something that is stored in the brain at birth? Or just a predisposition in the brain, that if exercised makes a person an arts or math genius. I'm sure you can copy the memory, but would your brain develop the same way if you were cloned?

Pregnancy probably influences the brain development to some degree, so maybe you will never be able to clone humans exactly. Unless technology is developed to run pregnancy in a controlled environment, even then extra care would have to be taken to duplicate the subjects exactly.

It is like if you take two seemingly identical seeds and plant them, it is hard to get 100% identical plants. One might get more nutrients, more water, more sunlight, less wind, no obstructions in soil etc. Human development is several magnitudes more complicated than plant development.

I don't see how you could copy the memory to be honest :/

And you wouldn't be able to copy the experience! Which would mean that by having a younger brain, you would also lose most of what you've learned!!!

The same way you're copying programs, apps, registry files or system files from one hard drive to another.

Yeah but you know how to copy them because you know how to store the data. Do we know how our brain stores data?

We are working on it... Wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative