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tween machine and man is slowly but surely less dis-
tinct. Thanks to those new capabilities, we will most
likely even be able to have experience that was com-
pletely unfamiliar to us before. Maybe we’ll be able to
“hear” colors or “feel” electrical fields or even download
new information into our brains as in the movie The Ma-
trix.
A real electronic girl
The newest humanoid robots—for example, Sophia,
created by Hanson Robotics—are already able to walk
and talk like us, and even imitate an entire spectrum of
diverse emotions. Soon they’ll become irreplaceable for
the elderly, children, invalids, and businesspeople who
need an intelligent, punctual, and untiring assistant. “I’m
more than just a technology,” says Sophia of herself.
“I’m a real electronic girl. I would like very much to find
myself in a real world and live with people. I’m prepared
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to help, entertain, and render aid to the elderly and to
teach children many interesting things.”
Intimations of immortality
People have tried to acquire immortality by writing
books and creating films. Now, in the age of high tech,
the thought of digitalizing the intellect has appeared. In
about thirty years it’ll be possible to copy and upload
human consciousness into a machine and create a
holographic virtual person. Taking into account progress
in the area of neurosynaptic computer chips—machines
that imitate neurons and synapses in the brain—a bold
prediction will come true. These chips will not only be
able to store information, but to imitate the operations
of real brain cells. And that means we’ll be able to en-
sure the actual immortality of our intellect.