[cstreit]

I think you're absolutely right. ...but let me get a little dystopian with it.

Had a conversation with renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil at a conference once. He points to a potentially positive or grim future.

So at some point medical science will help us live longer - like MUCH longer. We will also have more direct access to things like data directly into our heads.

Now these life prolonging treatments will be very expensive - as will having your own AI self wired into your head. ..but for those that can afford it they will live longer to accumulate more wealth - and with the added intellectual power of their second self (or 100 selfs) they can be doing 100 things at once accelerating that.

So having the sum total of human knowledge direct to your brain plus living 200+ years could be amazing - but it could also create an even greater divide between the haves and the have-nots.