{"id":9808,"date":"2014-01-11T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:11:08","slug":"why-you-should-upload-yourself-to-a-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/why-you-should-upload-yourself-to-a-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Upload Yourself to a Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"meta-bg\"><span class=\"meta-info display-name strong\"><a class=\"text-upper\" href=\"http:\/\/georgedvorsky.kinja.com\">George Dvorsky<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-info display-name strong published-on\"> <span class=\"trigger-italic\">on<\/span> <a class=\"text-upper\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\">io9<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still decades \u2014 if not centuries \u2014 away from being able to transfer a mind to a supercomputer. It\u2019s a fantastic future prospect that makes some people incredibly squeamish. But there are considerable benefits to living a digital life. Here\u2019s why you should seriously consider uploading.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve pointed out before, uploading is not a given; <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498\">there are many conceptual, technological, ethical, and security issues to overcome<\/a>. But for the purposes of this Explainer, we\u2019re going to assume that uploads, or digital mind transfers, will eventually be possible \u2014 whether it be from the scanning and mapping of a brain, serial brain sectioning, brain imaging, or some unknown process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/why-you-should-upload-yourself-to-a-supercomputer-1497856380\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Dvorsky on io9 We\u2019re still decades \u2014 if not centuries \u2014 away from being able to transfer a mind to a supercomputer. It\u2019s a fantastic future prospect that makes some people incredibly squeamish. But there are considerable benefits to living a digital life. Here\u2019s why you should seriously consider uploading. As I\u2019ve pointed out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,44,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singularity","category-supercomputing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65066,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions\/65066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}