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Sunday, December 1, 2013

A digital umbilical cord for life extension

A project at Lifenaut aims to create a digital image vault of your life history where avatars of the future will live forever. At least, that is my interpretation. It reminded me of a project Ray Kuzweil has to bring his father back to life. He has a store room full of bankers boxes of information about him. Probably that is all digitized now. This is not an actual eHealth application like the Virtual Self, which can be used for diagnostic simulations.

Create a Mind File

How it Works

Upload biographical pictures, videos, and documents to a digital archive that will be preserved for generations.
Organize through geo mapping, timelines, and tagging, a rich portrait of information about you. The places you’ve been and the people you’ve met can be stored.
Create a computer-based avatar to interact and respond with your attitudes, values, mannerisms and beliefs.
Connect with other people who are interested in exploring the future of technology and how it can enhance the quality of our lives.




Saturday, March 23, 2013

Interfaith Dialogue on Avatar Immortality

The Avatar project created by Russian Billionaire Dmitry Itskov has a remarkable website, including this Interfaith Dialogue on the spiritual future of humanity as it approaches the technological ability to:

  1. A robotic copy of a human body remotely controlled by BCI - 2015 - 2020
  2. An Avatar in which a human brain is transplanted at the end of one's life - 2020 - 2025
  3. An Avatar with an artificial brain in which a human personality is transplanted at the end of one's life - 2030 - 2035
  4. A hologram like avatar - 2040 - 2045
There is a lot of heavy weight endorsement for this project if you look at the list of names in their letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon . There are a lot more names from the religious traditions on that letter as well, than are included in this video of interfaith dialogue. One of the names I had to look up was Dr. James Martin — "British author and entrepreneur and the largest individual benefactor to the University of Oxford in its 900-year history". I probably should have heard of him, A) because I have worked with computer information technology for 30 years, and B) because I work in a university where large donations by benefactors is the essential component for driving research and keeping university infrastructure and education alive.  I read the biography of Dr. William Osler several times, the masterful version written by Michael Bliss. When Osler was enticed to go to Johns Hopkins, one of the first hospitals combined with a teaching university level medical school, it was just an architectural blue print at the time. But it owed it's existence to visionary philanthropic benefactors and it was a turning point in philanthropic largesse. Millionaires were starting to seek immortality for their names by given money to universities instead of churches, except for eccentrics like Carnegie, who thought building free libraries and educating the massess was more worthy of the life energy contained in his horde of lucre.  It now seems like giving money to immortality projects is the ultimate form of philanthropic immortality. 

Saturday, March 3, 2012

LIfe Extension for All: Global Future Congress Announces "Avatar"

I think life extension research is a major component of ehealth. I might even venture to say it is the purpose of ehealth, but I know that sounds like idle speculation. The Global Future Congress reminds me about something I read in one of the books by Ray Kuzweil, that if people really wanted to achieve an objective they could organize something like the historic "Manhattan Project" and make a super human effort. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/595157#ixzz1o3UsaZbE