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How will technology and science advance in the next thousand years?


“'Wonderful!' he breathed, almost reverently. 'Some of it seemed - well, realer than real!'
Then his engineer's curiosity, never far from the surface, started nagging him.
'Even that short demo must have contained an enormous amount of information. How's it stored?'
'In these tablets - the same your audio-visual system uses, but with much greater capacity.'
The Brainman handed Poole a small square, apparently made of glass, silvered on one surface; it was
almost the same size as the computer diskettes of his youth, but twice the thickness. As Poole tilted it
back and forth, trying to see into its transparent interior, there were occasional rainbow-hued flashes, but
that was all.
He was holding, he realized, the end product of more than a thousand years of electro-optical
technology - as well as other technologies unborn in his era. And it was not surprising that, superficially, it
resembled closely the devices he had known. There was a convenient shape and size for most of the
common objects of everyday life -knives and forks, books, hand-tools, furniture... and removable
memories for computers.
'What's its capacity?' he asked. 'In my time, we were up to a terabyte in something this size. I'm sure
you've done a lot better.'
'Not as much as you might imagine - there's a limit, of course, set by the structure of matter. By the
way, what was a terabyte? Afraid I've forgotten.'
'Shame on you! Kilo, mega, giga, tera... that's ten to the twelfth bytes. Then the petabyte - ten to the
fifteenth - that's as far as I ever got.'
'That's about where we start. It's enough to record everything any person can experience during one
lifetime.'
It was an astonishing thought, yet it should not have been so surprising. The kilogram of jelly inside
the human skull was not much larger than the tablet Poole was holding in his hand, and it could not
possibly be as efficient a storage device - it had so many other duties to deal with.
'And that's not all,' the Brainman continued. 'With some data compression, it could store not only the
memories - but the actual person.' 'And reproduce them again?'
'Of course; straightforward job of nanoassembly.'
So I'd heard, Poole told himself - but I never really believed it.
Back in his century, it seemed wonderful enough that the entire lifework of a great artist could be
stored on a single small disk. And now, something no larger could hold - the artist as well.” – 3001: A Final Odyssey, Page 17, Arthur C. Clarke

With this extract in mind, here are my questions:
1.Will it be possible, at least physically, to store the entire data content of the human brain into some form of medium (like a hard-drive)? Give your views on this matter.
2.Will it be possible, in the future, to create a sort of “Braincap” that can connect to the person’s skull and put the person into a virtual simulation, almost dream-like? What will be required to make this a reality?
3.Will it be possible to store an “actual person”? What was meant by nanoassembly and reproducing the person? So does it mean you could make a “copy” of a human being and store it in a hard-drive, ready to play back every one of the memories and experiences the person had during his life. This is a very ambigous implication. Either you can literally copy a person's brain and store it in a hard-drive, where the person will be both conscious and senstive to outputs from the outside world, or be placed in a virtual simulation, or the person's MEMORIES are stored in a hard-drive that is optomized for audio-visual data only - meaning that you can play all the memories back in relative time, on an LCD screen, just like watching a DVD or video file.

Answers to your questions:
Number 1 Answer - Yes. Man will have to duplicate the transmission of information in human neuron's from body to physical intities outside the human body. Computers store data as 1's and Zero's. The brain doesn't. Undertand that a neuron (pronounced /ˈnjʊərɒn/ N(Y)OOR-on, also known as a neurone or nerve cell) is an excitable cell in the nervous system that processes and transmits information by electrochemical signalling. Neurons are the core components of the brain, the vertebrate spinal cord, the invertebrate ventral nerve cord, and the peripheral nerves. A number of specialized types of neurons exist: sensory neurons respond to touch, sound, light and numerous other stimuli affecting cells of the sensory organs that then send signals to the spinal cord and brain. Motor neurons receive signals from the brain and spinal cord and cause muscle contractions and affect glands. Interneurons connect neurons to other neurons within the same region of the brain or spinal cord. Neurons respond to stimuli, and communicate the presence of stimuli to the central nervous system, which processes that information and sends responses to other parts of the body for action. Neurons do not go through mitosis, and usually cannot be replaced after being destroyed, although astrocytes have been observed to turn into neurons as they are sometimes pluripotent.

Number 2 Answer: Yes. It is already possible since we can already alter the brain waves of the human brain. Thus placing people into a dream like state of meditation. The brain's ability to dream can also be altered, basically invoking dreams. Once this is perfected, we can basically dream and meditate with pleasure.

Number 3 Answer: Yes. People will be able to experience life events such as jumping from a plane or skying down a slope without physically being there. The dream like event will be in color, four dementional and have all the senses available. This can be experinced via the brain versus watching a movie. This will be possible by the solutions acquired in number 1 above.

2009-09-09 06:13:15 by Corruptor Bot ¦ÆЩ±®¬

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