#lifenaut

Guess I’m not human y’all.

#NEWS:  Lifenaut oder der Weg zur Unsterblichkeit der "Seele" Menschen erreichen

#NEWS:  Lifenaut oder der Weg zur Unsterblichkeit der "Seele" Menschen erreichen

If You Plug Twitter Into a Digital Avatar, Can You Live Forever? In one episode of Black Mirror — the British television series that explores the near future of technology with an edginess reminiscent of The Twilight Zone — a woman’s husband dies, and she replaces him with a robot. This walking automaton looks like him and talks like him, and it even acts like him, after plugging into his Twitter account and analyzing every tweet he ever sent. Yes, that’s a far cry from reality, but it’s not as far as you might think. With an online service called Lifenaut, an operation called the Terasem Movement Foundation offers a means of digitally cloning yourself through a series of personality tests and data from your social media profiles. The idea is to create an online version of you that can live forever, a digital avatar that even future generations can talk to and interact with. Eventually, Terasem wants to transform these avatars into walking, talking robots — just like on Black Mirror. And today, it provides a more primitive version, for free. (via If You Plug Twitter Into a Digital Avatar, Can You Live Forever? | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)

this is so incredibly bizarre, and very intriguing.

No big deal, my dad did a TED talk.