Re: Uploading and Nanotech

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 18 1998 - 09:20:03 MDT


"Tony B. Csoka" <csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu> writes:

> A rather simple question occured to me:
>
> "Which technology will appear first: Nanotechnology, or Uploading?"

It is unlikely uploading would be feasible without the computing power
made possible by nanotechnology, the detailled neuroscientific
know-how about how the brain works that nanodevices could give us and
the development of a scanning process, where the so far only
theoretically feasible methods have all involved nanosystems. So we
will with high certainty develop nanotechnology a long while before
uploading becomes possible.

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