blogging and email may extend your life

At some point in the future, you'll be able to back-up your brain on a machine and ensure that you never die. Your brain will live on a machine and might be able to be transferred back to a body. But if you die before this brain back-up technology is developed, you won't be around to experience that world or to experience immortality. 

Unless … unless we can recreate you somehow.

Question: with the thousands of letters he wrote, could we recreate Thomas Jefferson? Maybe.

 

Now look at people that blog often and write lots of emails. Could we recreate them? More likely. Especially bloggers like Danah Boyd that really inject their personality into their blogs. Even more importantly, save your IMs as they might really reveal your personality.

 

So the next time your spouse/mother/friend gets mad at you for spending all your time in front of your computer just remind them that this time will potentially extend your life (or help you live forever).

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[Michael Anissimov]

Physicist Frank Tipler has speculated that at the Big Crunch, all light information will reconvene in one spot, and an intelligent supercomputer will be able to reconstitute all past beings based extrapolations of this information. It doesn't look like this will work for a number of reasons, but it was an interesting idea.