Our message to News of Future

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by the e-Vangelist
May 18th, 2008 Salt Springs, Pictou, NS, Canada

Around their article from August 24, 2020 titled:

Is Tickle the Future of the Movie Industry?

The technology to support this is arguably the one to support a second digital life. We’ll just have to “extract” our own psychological profile/character and upload it to an AI player which will perform (according to AI definition) at a level where our friends won’t distinguish the original from the copy. Think about all these opportunities - and start archive your “souls” today if you think this is going to happen in the future. Aren’t you courious about living in a digital heaven?

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World’s oldest voice recording

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by the e-Vangelist
May 11th, 2008 Salt Springs, Pictou, NS, Canada

It took nearly 150 years for the world’s first voice recording to reach our ears.  It was on top news channels in March:

Voice recording may be world’s oldest on CNN

or

Experts find oldest voice recording, from 1860 on msnbc.com

I want to suggest here a parallel: an innovator in 1860 develops a “cool” and useless technology foe time and some friends or clients are eager to try the service without an immediate benefit beyond a scribbled paper. The information in the phonoautograph travels through time (thanks to historians and museums - the long term archiving vectors) and finally after 148 years a technology is in place to “play” the recording for  the world to hear.

Today a number of innovations and new IT technologies can help us “dump” or memories and personal history, the same long term archiving organizations are around to send the digital soul into the future where, likely after a few decades a technology will be in place to “run” our eSouls on brain like computers. That will be the start of a new life for the eSouls “recorded” today. At that time mankind might again wonder about the first archived eSoul - Are you interested in this time travel trip?

the evangelist

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Echo Memoirs - Share your story

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by Steve
December 20th, 2006 Salt Springs, Pictou, NS, Canada

Share your story with family and friends - That’s the message from Echo Memoirs, a smart business in Vancouver, BC.

They’ll help you put together your personal, family, business or even pet story and will produce a whole book. Quite pricey - $30,000 the starting price, but reasonable if you consider the effort, the skills and number of people involved. Do you have the skills to make it cheaper or better? Not sure? You might find easier to go for a personal or family blog. And I’m pretty sure from this generation on the bolgs might be preferred although from the archiving point of view a combination of technologies - digital and paper - will work better to save your soul.

Here it is their website:

EchoMemoirs.com

the evangelist

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Robots, robots and the first millionaire in a second life

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by Steve
November 28th, 2006 Salt Springs, Pictou, NS, Canada

If you still doubt the convergent trend of mixing biological and artificial life you should check this links on top media:

Company takes robot realism to new level

and

Robot science in reach for humans

but now what I see really impresive is the announcement of the first virtual millionaire:

Anshe Chung: The first virtual millionaire

Although for now is just a game you could easily imagine Anshe to continue her virtual business after the passage of her biological body, at the time when the game will support AI profiles for players able to conduct a life on their own.

At that time you might even notice job positions where biological humans will work for artificial characters…

How do you feel about that?

the evangelist

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Two advocates of saving memories

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by Steve
October 17th, 2006 Salt Springs, Pictou, NS, Canada

Taylor Gandossy (CNN) reports in his Oct 16, 2006 article about 2 remarcable memory archiving projects:

Digital age may bring total recall in future

The first project -MyLifeBits- already in its 5th year comes from Microsoft and aims at delivering a “surogate memory” - a system to record, digitize and archive everything we hear, see, etc. An interim objective will be to make the system available and then to gradually make it present in all PCs.

There is no mention of long term archiving in the article but obviously this is a technical issue Microsoft is well positioned to address. Here is a link to MyLifeBits website:

MyLifeBits Project

The second project, similar but at a smaller scale, comes from Sunil Vemuri, a doctoral student at MIT who focused on developing a device to combat memory problems. Apparently a short term issue although such personal devices might work well for capturing data to be stored in a larger long term archive like MS MyLifeBits.

Link to QTech Inc website:

QTech Inc

Both Project leaders Gordon Bell (Microsoft) and Sunil Vemuri (QTech) acknowledge privacy concerns and expect society and laws to adjust to these sort of new technological realities.

When will all these happen?

The answer to this question will show how much we, as individuals and society, value our memories, our loved ones, our values and our lifes.

the evangelist

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Who wants to live to be 100?

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by Steve
October 5th, 2006 Salt Springs, Pictou, NS, Canada

We could guess many people are affraid of death. And we might conclude they love life as long as it could be. That seems to be wrong. For some reasons people don’t even think of reaching 100 years. For now it seems there are plenty of reasons.

Read what 5 centenarians have to say on this matter in an MSN article:

Want to be 100? Listen to these 5 centenarian

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