HUFFINGTON
07.15.12
CATHERINE KARNOW
YOU. ROBOT
the Washington D.C area.
In 1994, Rothblatt changed
her first name from the original “Martin” after undergoing
a sex-change operation. She
and her wife, Bina, have four
children together, and live in
multiple houses around the
world. Duncan refers to them as
“urban nomads.” He also says
that Martine Rothblatt is “absolutely sure” that mindfiles
will be able to exist one day, so
sure that she’s even started a
religion, the “Terasem Faith,”
based on the idea. “I’ve never
been so sure if anything in my
life,” she once told him.
“This idea we are more than
our bodies, that our technology will continue to evolve and
transcend,” Duncan says. “To
her it seems really clear.”
The Rothblatts like to imagine that even after they pass
away their lives will somehow
continue, and they’ll communicate to each other through their
mindfiles, or “mindclones.”
They’ll interact through these
other versions of themselves
forever into eternity.
“This whole thing is really a
love story,” Duncan says.
MIRO’S MANIFESTO.
As computers get smarter and
smaller and faster — the one
in your iPhone is stronger than
the combined computing power
of NASA during the first moon
In his home
office, David
Co pe works
on software
he developed
for music
composition.