{"id":120414,"date":"2021-03-10T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-dyson-sphere-could-bring-humans-back-from-the-dead-researchers-say"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:22:17","slug":"a-dyson-sphere-could-bring-humans-back-from-the-dead-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-dyson-sphere-could-bring-humans-back-from-the-dead-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"A Dyson Sphere Could Bring Humans Back From the Dead, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dyson-sphere-could-bring-humans-back-from-the-dead-researchers-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine this: In the far, far future, long after you\u2019ve died, you\u2019ll eventually come back to life. So will everyone else who ever had a hand in the history of human civilization. But in this scenario, returning from the dead is the relatively normal part. The journey home will be a hell of a lot weirder than the destination.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ud8VNfi1hlo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it will go down: A megastructure called a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/deep-space\/a11098\/dyson-sphere\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/deep-space\/a11098\/dyson-sphere\/\">Dyson Sphere<\/a> will provide a superintelligent artificial agent (AI) with the enormous amounts of power it needs to collect as much historical and personal data about you, so it can rebuild your exact digital copy. Once it\u2019s finished, you\u2019ll live your whole life (again) in a simulated reality, and when the time comes for you to die (again), you\u2019ll be transported into a simulated afterlife, \u00e0 la <em>Black Mirror<\/em>\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ud8VNfi1hlo\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ud8VNfi1hlo\">San Junipero<\/a>,\u201d where you\u2019ll get to hang out with your friends, family, and favorite celebrities forever.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is mind-boggling. But someday, it might also be very real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this: In the far, far future, long after you\u2019ve died, you\u2019ll eventually come back to life. So will everyone else who ever had a hand in the history of human civilization. But in this scenario, returning from the dead is the relatively normal part. The journey home will be a hell of a lot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}