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Virtually human : the promise--and the peril--of digital immortality
Title:
Virtually human : the promise--and the peril--of digital immortality
Author:
Rothblatt, Martine Aliana, 1954- , author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
"Explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts that are derived from multimedia data in a Mindfile created by the real Bina. If you're active on Twitter or Facebook, share photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you're already on your way to creating a Mindfile--a digital database of your thoughts, memories, feelings, and opinions that is essentially a back-up copy of your mind"--
Language:
English
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781250046635
Format :
Book