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Thu Apr 4 08:44:58 EST 2002
Randal A. Koene
Perhaps we will all be astonished at the rapidity with which the public and officials adopt mind uploading as a scientific and social goal. Other technologies with similarly portentious anticipated effects on humanity are receiving credence and support from individuals, corporations and governments alike. Previously it was genetic engineering that made its way into the mainstream. Now it is nanotechnology that, while not many leaps beyond the stage that mind uploading is at, receives substantial official backing, such as R&D at Sandia National Laboratories (see http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2000/nanotech.htm). This bodes well for the prospects of research into Whole Brain Emulation, in addition to the immediate benefits that progress in nanotechnology will bring to Whole Brain Emulation.
Generally speaking, it seems that the population in-the-know is surprisingly (at least it keeps surprising me) uncritical of the sociological impact that mind uploading will make, while in majority positively inclined towards the concept, and often-times quite literally anticipating it (see comments by Slashdot readers concerning the article by Ray Kurzweil: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/26/1133249&mode=nested). The readership of that site is perhaps a rather skewed sample of the general population, but nonetheless a fair sample of the generation of scientists and technologists that will witness and participate in the development of mind uploading.
Previous Mind Uploading Bulletin (Apr. 20, 2000): minduploading.org/mu-status-bulletin.20000420.html
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