This is so cool...

...that the Republicans are sure to ban it.

This is guaranteed to turn Republicans into the world's most fervent supporters of the UN as world government, with them at the controls. Of course they will still praise federalism and excoriate those who praise the withering away of the nation-state.

'If you draw the timelines, realistically by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine, so when you die it's not a major career problem,' [Ian Pearson, head of the futurology unit at BT] told The Observer....

"Not everyone agrees, but it's my conclusion that it is possible to make a conscious computer with superhuman levels of intelligence before 2020.'

David Smith has the story in the Observer. Worth a read, oh ye of little faith in Progress.

Thanks to ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News for the lead.