In an interview Dr. Linde described these brains as a form of reincarnation. Over the course of eternity, he said, anything is possible. After some Big Bang in the far future, he said, “it’s possible that you yourself will re-emerge. Eventually you will appear with your table and your computer.” But it’s more likely, he went on, that you will be reincarnated as an isolated brain, without the baggage of stars and galaxies. In terms of probability, he said, “It’s cheaper.”

Because arbitrage opportunities disappear so quickly now, neural networks have emerged that can consider thousands of scenarios at once. It is unlikely, for instance, that Microsoft will begin selling ice cream or IBM declare bankruptcy, but a nonlinear system can consider such possibilities, and thousands of others, without overtaxing computers that must be ready to react in milliseconds.

The at SC06 the inventor described the nanobots that would cruise the human body, cleaning blood passages and doing a lot of useful work, which is required for a body to avoid heart diseases:

By the late 2020s, doctors will be sending intelligent bots, or nanobots, into our bloodstreams to keep us healthy, and into our brains to keep us young;

He even points at the exact year, when computational power will exceed the human intelligence:

Computer, or non-biological, intelligence created in the year 2045 will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.

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Nifty toy, not sure I have found the use for it yet.

The CyberKinetics computer that interprets brain signals picked up by that tiny chip is about the size of a washing machine. Over the next several years, researchers hope to reduce it to the size of a personal digital assistant. Far off as thought technology’s promise may be, it will happen.

If you hand your head – or “neuro” – to Alcor, it costs $80,000; if you freeze your body, the price rises to $150,000. The Cryonics Institute charges much less: $28,000 for a full body.. In any case, many people who are willing to believe that their severed head can be reanimated and attached to a new body at some unknown time in the distant future are not ones to fret about costs.

Alcor also happens to have a whole bunch of frequently asked questions on their Web site, including the tricky ones such as ” What about overpopulation?” and “What happens to the soul?” Cryonics Institute also lists the frequently asked questions which mentions 450 members currently enrolled with the Institute.