“Some 80 years ago, philanthropist Spencer Penrose amassed a fortune in Western gold, silver, and copper mines. After building a zoo and hospital, he decided to erect a monument to himself on a Colorado ridge,” Ben Kunz writes for Businessweek. “No, his friends warned, that would be egocentric. As a result, the glowing 80-foot spire on Cheyenne Mountain is known as the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, making Penrose, whose ashes are buried there, an afterthought.”
Kunz writes, “The good news is that soon, when you die, you won’t have to worry about people forgetting you — because your voice and face will live forever with the Eternity App.”
“No one has built an Eternity App yet, but I predict that it is coming: an application that will create the illusion of immortality, that will make your voice and thoughts carry on after you are dead, an artificially intelligent version of you,” Kunz writes. “Three technologies make it possible: Voice recognition, artificial intelligence simulation, and social media data sets of your personal nuances. With this app you could call home to check on your family, joke with friends over Twitter, even decide whom to elect President — all after you shuffle off this mortal coil.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]