From: hal@finney.org
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 00:05:35 MST
There was a funny joke about uploading (they called it downloading) on
Friends this past week (a rerun episode I hadn't seen before). Ross (the
paleontologist) is telling Chandler about this book he read about how in
30 years computers will be as complex as human brains, so we'll be able to
download all our thoughts and memories into the computer, and live forever
as machines. Chandler is totally bored by this techno gobbledegook.
In the tag at the end, nerdy Ross starts telling Joey's hot new roommate
(played by supermodel Elle McPherson) the same thing, about how
computers will be as complex as brains in 30 years, and she breaks in
enthusiastically and says yeah, we'll be able to download our thoughts
and memories into the computer and live forever as machines! Joke is
that the geeky guy with the boring techno talk gets the attention of
the gal...
Hal
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