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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2037884" data-attributes="member: 12706">I just love all these speculative comments on what will happen "in 20 years." But immortality is possible. I can even tell you how it can be done! But, I can't make it happen yet - the technology isn't here quite yet. And it won't really help any of us who are already alive, anyway.Imagine a computer model of a human, like the type used for computer-guided surgery. Pretty complex, but still fairly simple compared to a real person. So let's ramp it up a bit, and give our future computer a scan resolution that goes down to the molecular, or even subatomic level. So far, we're dealing with stuff we could do with CURRENT technology, if we wanted to put the money into it. Here comes the future, but inevitably coming, tech part - let's give our computer enough memory and processor power to use the initially scanned vectors of all of those subatomic particles to continuously render a version of that person, in the computer, in real time. At that point, you've changed the media, but that person is effectively REAL - as real to themselves as you are to you. Now, going further, imagine a whole bunch of computers capable of doing this (how'd ya like a Beowulf cluster of those, eh? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> ), networked, and providing a rendered environment, as well...Eventually, unless something catastrophic happens to set tech back, we'll have entire cities, nations, even worlds, with people as real as you or I, but in the computers. Even having children - human children - entirely within the computers. And once they've explored the limits of setting their own program parameters and such, I can see no reason why, short of murder, they'd be mortal.But I'm not going to peg this one at "within 20 years," although I do feel safe to say that it has ALREADY started, and will be self-evident to most everyone within a century.</blockquote>

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