The Avatar of My Father
HORATIO: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.
The Singularity - the prophesied moment when artificial intelligence leaps ahead of human intelligence, rendering man both obsolete and immortal - has been jokingly called "the rapture of the geeks." But to Ray Kurzweil, the most famous of the Singularitarians, it's no joke. In a profile in the current issue of Rolling Stone (not available online), Kurzweil describes how, in the wake of the Singularity, it will become possible not only to preserve living people for eternity (by uploading their minds into computers) but to resurrect the dead.
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