{"id":23494,"date":"2016-03-14T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-immortalist-uploading-the-mind-to-a-computer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:21","slug":"the-immortalist-uploading-the-mind-to-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-immortalist-uploading-the-mind-to-a-computer","title":{"rendered":"The immortalist: Uploading the mind to a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-immortalist-uploading-the-mind-to-a-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many tech moguls dream of changing the way we live with new smart devices or social media apps, one Russian internet millionaire is trying to change nothing less than our destiny, by making it possible to upload a human brain to a computer, reports Tristan Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the next 30 years,\u201d promises Dmitry Itskov, \u201cI am going to make sure that we can all live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It sounds preposterous, but there is no doubting the seriousness of this softly spoken 35-year-old, who says he left the business world to devote himself to something more useful to humanity. \u201cI\u2019m 100% confident it will happen. Otherwise I wouldn\u2019t have started it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-35786771\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-35786771<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many tech moguls dream of changing the way we live with new smart devices or social media apps, one Russian internet millionaire is trying to change nothing less than our destiny, by making it possible to upload a human brain to a computer, reports Tristan Quinn. \u201cWithin the next 30 years,\u201d promises Dmitry Itskov, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,418,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-internet","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68032,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494\/revisions\/68032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}