Artificial brains to host eSouls 10 years away

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After artificial limbs, heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, skin, muscle, bone, and promising artificial retina and eyeballs, were heralded in the health news already for several good decades (see msnbc / LiveScience.com article bellow)

Humans 2.0: Replacing the mind and body – Scientists edge closer to building many body parts from scratch in the lab

finally, the artificial brain is announcing its arrival in 10 years as we learn from Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project in BBC article by Jonathan Fildes:

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed

Markram’s promise is to send in 10 years a hologram powered by an artificial brain to talk to a TED Global Conference.

But even if Markram won’t meet his target, considering for example the difficulties and costs of bringing together hundreds of millions (if not billions processors), the future still looks bright as the way is open for a sooner or later availability of artificial brains. We should easily add easily add one or 2 more decades to have artificial human brains accessible to the mass market and ready for purchase at a nearby FutureShop. Obviously, if you are concerned being too old and missing the date, we strongly recommend to carefully archive your memories and make the required arrangements with family and friends (and lawyers and bankers) to upload your personality to an artificial brain. You should be able to resume life with only one artificial brain (which likely will be a cloud computing service) and keep valuable processing time for your own cerished thoughts, family events and hobbies although you should better plan to conduct some lucrative activities in order to ensure you’ll get the funds to pay for the computing and IT maintenace services. Or if you get bored or want to skip politics and economic crises you can take arhiving naps and wake-up only when life is good and computing power is cheap. (if you trust somebody loves you enough to wake you up)

I guess half a century from now TED conferences will never end as our multiple artificial brains will debate endless options and questions around the most fascinating ideas and just from time to time we’ll have some parties to invite our wearing bodies which brought our souls into existence.

Politics, economics and generally life on earth will be quite different, do you dare imagine that?