Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, wants to develop the technology to raise the dead. Before anyone screams zombies and vampires, the technology centers around using stored keepsakes, memories, journals, etc. to create a virtual representation of the person who has passed on. Many scientists and engineers believe that Kurzweil’s ideas are not too farfetched. But according to Google, this type of technology does have limits as to who can come back as a virtual person and who cannot.
1. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (when his time comes) will remain dead. Why? Just because. Why should they come back just to rain on Google’s parade? It’s Google’s project, and Jobs and Gates will try and take credit and ruin Google’s fun.
2. There can be no reality show stars brought back to life. Why? Well, Google would like to say “Just because they are annoying”, but in truth it’s because there has to be some basic intellect present in a person’s real life that the virtual person can build upon, and let’s face facts, the Jersey Shore people and the Honey Boo Boo family are not exactly burning up the IQ charts.
3. The ultra right-wing members of the GOP: See Reality Show stars reasoning
Anyone else is pretty much a go. I would suggest if you are into the possibility of coming back to bother your loved ones without the hassle of being a ghost and haunting them, you contact Google and request to be a guinea pig. I am sure with Google behind this project, nothing can go wrong. Just look at Google+.
So, this would be the complement to Google+, where living people go now to virtually die.
If they bring back a virtual me to bug my surviving friends and relatives, I want to look the same way I did when I was 22. If they won’t do that, I won’t play.
It’s virtual, so my guess would be you could be who you want.
In that case, I want to be Anne Hathaway. When Anne Hathaway’s turn comes, she can have my 22 year old self. Is that a fair trade or what?
Imagine if they screwed up and got a cross between The Situation and Steve Jobs. I’d watch that.
That would happen to google. Nothing ever goes exactly right for them in these projects!
Hey! Once my ticket is punched to leave this place I ain’t comin’ back in any form. I did my tour of duty and dat’s dat.
I am with you LB! If I come back, it’s to haunt people and scare the crap out of them.
This is so tacky that it has the potential to be huge!
and a best seller it will be! Tacky always sells!
I think I see the beginnings of a script for a horror movie here. .. 🙂
Most likely someone from Google is writing it as we speak! Thanks for reading Mark!