Horizon: The Immortalist
To Live Forever !
Andoids and humans are coming hard to tell apart.
There are some andoids that do now look very human like.
Are they suggesting that we somehow link our brains with Android technology to keep our brains living for eternity ! :o
2015-2016, Episode 1
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The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. Dmitry Itskov recently brought together some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that would allow him to escape his biological destiny. Entering Dmitry's seemingly sci-fi world, Horizon investigates the real science inspiring his bold plan to upload the human mind to a computer. We meet the maker of Erica, one of the world's most human-like robots, who tells us the destiny of humans is to become robots to overcome the constraints of time; see how a quadriplegic Californian man is already controlling a robot arm with his thoughts; and explore the groundbreaking work of the scientist behind the world's largest neuroscience project - the $6 billion US Brain Initiative - who tells us the effort to map all the activity of the brain could be a crucial step towards mind uploading.
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A billionaire tries to find out how to make us all immortal;
"My name's Dmitry Itskov. Within the next 30 years, I'm going to make sure we can all live for ever." Like some real-life sci-fi mastermind, billionaire Itskov has assembled the best neuroscientists and AI experts money can buy, to figure out how to upload human consciousness, as tonight's mind-boggling Horizon explores. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, for one, might sound like a nitwit ("Someday, I want to talk about the soul with an android"), but will he have the last – metallic-sounding –
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An experiment on controlling a bionic arm via brain-machine interface in The Immortalists. Photograph: Alister Pares/BBC
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/16/wednesdays-best-tv-horizon-the-immortalist-my-family-at-war-scruffts
I suppose he also thought about technological obsolescence. :)
I wonder if walt Disney watched this from his Jar ?
the Russian guy was so full of fear of death , I found it difficulty to see how he was going to achieve anything in that state. Jar next to Walt for him, by the looks..
maybe Futurerama will give him a feature in their next cartoon series.. looks like his only chance for immortality to me :D
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