As long as people have been alive, they've wanted to stay alive.

For centuries, explorers have searched for the fountain of youth.

And today, scientists are hard at work, researching technology that can extend the human lifespan, stop or reverse aging,

and even preserve a terminally ill person indefinitely until a cure for their disease is discovered.

But what if, instead of preserving our bodies we

could preserve our consciousness by uploading it to a powerful computer? This is

called mind uploading and one startup has developed a procedure to do exactly this.

It's scientifically sound there's a waiting list to participate and the procedure is 100% fatal.

There is no limit.

There is no limit to human desire.

Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your perspective, there is a limit to our lifespan.

But what if we could upload our memories, experiences, our entire consciousness to the cloud?

This would be a sort of digital immortality.

It might not be as far-fetched as you think.

Famous Futures-Wile believes we'll be able to upload our entire minds to computers

by 2045, and that machines will replace our entire bodies by the end of the century.

Now this might be a bit optimistic, but it really is just a matter of time,

but there are a few issues we need to solve first.

The concept of uploading an entire human brain is called

whole brain emulation. Three main areas of technology make this possible,

scanning, processing power, and environment.

Let's start with brain scanning.

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