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Humans able to back up their brain and its memories within two
decades, claims top scientist
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322218/Humans-able-brain-decades-claims-scientist.html
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:09 AM on 21st October 2010
People will be able back up the human brain including all of the
memories it contains within the next two decades, according to a
leading scientist.
Award-winning Raymond Kurzweil, 62, has notched up a string of
pioneering computer inventions including voice recognition technology
during his career.
Kurzweil told 500 guests at a sponsored 'future talk' event in Vienna,
Austria, that the human brain backup was now already technically
possible.
Ray Kurzweil claims humans will be able to 'back up' their memories
within 20 years
He said: 'I believe that within the next 20 years we will have
thousands of nanobot computer machines in our blood that will heal our
bodies, improve our performance, and even be able to back up all the
contents of our brains, just as you backup your files on a computer.
'That means they would back up every thought, every experience,
everything that makes us an individual.'
'It may sound far-fetched but in the early 1980s, people thought I was
crazy for predicting the emergence of the world wide web by the middle
of the 1990s; but it happened, and on the schedule I predicted.'
At the age of 15 he created a programme that could recreate music in
the style of the great composers, which earned him a visit to the
White House and an interview with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
He also built the first machine that could read written speech for the
blind for his friend Stevie Wonder - for whom he also later made a
revolutionary musical synthesizer capable of recreating real
instruments.
Kurzweil has 19 honorary doctorates and now advises governments,
scientists, military and business people across the world on a variety
of technology-related issues.
He is currently working with Google on a project about how to solve
the world's energy problems.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322218/Humans-able-brain-decades-claims-scientist.html#ixzz12zJtA14G
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