... What might the longer term future be like? As the Singularity moves ahead, with maturation of molecular engineering as envisioned by Ray Kurzweil in "The Singularity is Near", a state could be reached in less than a century where cyberbeings, not content with the limitations of virtual reality, would begin projecting themselves back into the real-world in much the way that biohumans in the movie Avatar were envisioned to project themselves into cloned "Na'vi" bodies, with several important differences.
(1) They would be backed up in cyberspace at many locations and not subject to destruction in the way that the Pandora biohumans could easily be destroyed by crushing their biopod projection modules, and
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Various terms for the creation of a human lookalike in computer-generated image and voice: Cyber Replicant, Digital Clone, Transbeman Person, Immortal Avatar, Transhuman Person, etc. So what's the term for the subject held under suspension by a backup?
The word PRESERVEE should help to describe things. Preservee stands in context to preservation like suspendee to suspension. The plural preservees, which means those who are put into preservation, must be seen in its plausible context. Similarly to the word suspendee, the word preservee refers to someone who is put passively into a state of safe-keeping. Another word next to it is CRYONAUT. Since the LONGEVITY MEME NEWSLETTER
http://www.longevity...wsletter_id=261 referred to
http://www.fightagin...or-cryonics.php using this word in 2008, there will be no problem to use it more frequently in hindsight to cryonics.
The downside in cyberspace are backups at many locations which belong to a single organization with only a few sponsors (or only one). When such an organization looses their greatest sponsor, it easily goes bankrupt. In such a case, even all of many locations where backups are located would be prone to disintegration. Thus, all backups will be lost and preservees may be unable to retrieve their files again.
Actually, the offline status of
http://immortalspace.com indicates that the commercial storage of mindfiles didn't paid off well in economic terms.
http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/80/5 contains one of my earlyer efforts to diverge the locations of backups:
Small investment in mind files, msg. posted in 2009. Actually, there are various memorabilia in storage which are called mind files. However, the way how to backup the archived mind files in digital form should be reorganized.
Well, the storage of files I mentioned in my previous messages at the tradecommunity group has already occurred. Please don't hesitate to check out
http://finance.group.../tradecommunity where group members can get the details.
Terasem is currently the only reliable organization actively dedicated to the online storage for the creation of digital clones or immortal avatars. Anyone who likes the idea of immortality should be encouraged to store such software. Most of mind files are only software, even cryonicists can upload them at
http://cyberev.org and
http://lifenaut.com -- cryonauts could probably recollect their files after centuries when reanimation of cryonically preserved brains has occurred.
Terasem's cyberev.org and lifenaut.com can keep mind files on their computers and create backups for data security. But Terasem must share one problem with many other small organizations: the problem that small business companies are often tied to the activities of their founders. When the founder is going to be disengaged or absent in business, the company often looses its ability to perform sufficiently.
The example given in here is Immortal Space LLC, founded by Bryan Noland. He and the company's parent Technology Mavericks LLC
http://www.techmavs.com in Tulsa, Oklahoma, got busy with
http://immortalspace.com since 2006. Since the early spring in 2009 until now I noticed that when I'm accessing immortalspace.com, their server isn't responding. Now the reason seems to be that Bryan Noland went disengaged or absent in business with Immortal Space, therefore he couldn't keep the immortalspace.com website up and running for any longer. So I've lost a useful backup space for the mind files I'm storing at lifenaut.com and cyberev.org which are owned by Terasem.
The founder of Terasem is Martine Rothblatt who in 2007 was the second-most highly compensated executive in Washington, D.C. So who is taking over the management and administration of Terasem when Martine Rothblatt is going to be disengaged or absent in business? Well, that question is missing an answer today, so I still need a backup space for the files stored at Terasem's sites, just in case.
In hindsight to data security for those who can keep their mindfiles stored and updated, who can help me to create the necessary backups? The File Storage Provider which I talked about in my previous messages at the above mentioned tradecommunity group demands less than $300. So that's certainly a small but profitable investment compared to Immortal Space which financial costs can be easily rated more than 100 times higher. Yet, those who are interested in that powerful investment are welcome to email me: robomoonatnexgo.de while at=@.
Edited by robomoon, 08 February 2010 - 05:26 PM.