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00:00 (Music)

00:04 You've lived.

00:07 You've laughed.

00:08 You've loved.

00:10 Now what?

00:12 (Music)

00:16 This is WHAT IF,

00:18 and here's what would happen

00:20 if you could upload your brain.

00:23 Maybe it was a little sad

00:24 to say goodbye to your physical body,

00:26 but at least you still have your consciousness,

00:29 your mind and your memories

00:31 stored safely in the cloud.

00:33 And in the virtual world,

00:35 anything that was once real,

00:37 physical and finite

00:39 can simply be replaced.

00:41 But is this really you?

00:45 Is eternal youth and everlasting life

00:48 all that it's made out to be?

00:50 Or is there a dark side to cloud consciousness?

00:55 What could go wrong?

00:57 The science of being able to digitize your brain

01:00 and upload it to the cloud

01:01 is highly controversial

01:03 and ultimately inconclusive.

01:06 Some experts say the technology will never exist,

01:09 but others promise that we'll have it by 2050.

01:13 In fact, there's already a wait list.

01:16 An American startup called Nectome

01:19 claims that through a process called vitrification,

01:22 they can preserve both the external

01:25 and internal structure of your brain

01:27 in perfect microscopic detail.

01:30 They do this by replacing the blood flow in your brain

01:33 with embalming chemicals,

01:35 basically turning your meaty processor

01:38 into frozen glass.

01:40 And if you haven't already guessed it,

01:42 you can't survive this procedure,

01:45 at least not physically.

01:48 In theory, you'll live forever,

01:51 but that's only if Nectome

01:53 figures out how to upload your brain to the cloud

01:56 and then revive it.

01:58 Let's assume they do.

02:00 Benjamin Franklin once wrote that

02:02 "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain

02:05 except death and taxes."

02:07 But it turns out,

02:08 immortality might come at an even higher price.

02:12 Opting to be uploaded into the cloud

02:14 might have some unforeseen consequences.

02:18 Today, the cloud is pretty much just virtual storage.

02:21 You pay a company a monthly fee

02:23 to store all your family photos

02:25 so that their awkwardness doesn't slow down your computer.

02:29 But now we're talking about you,

02:31 and all your unique traits and special qualities,

02:33 and all the wonderful things you have to offer the world

02:36 for being uploaded to a server which

02:39 probably isn't powered by a benevolent

02:41 and somewhat scary-looking bearded man in the sky.

02:45 More likely, your e-heaven will be run by some tech giant

02:48 who will have access to your life's worth of data,

02:51 along with everyone else's.

02:53 Your continued existence would be subscription-based,

02:56 requiring you to pay for storage and maintenance

02:59 on some high-tech server.

03:01 Your new home, and I suppose your identity as well,

03:04 will look like this.

03:07 Because this is really what the cloud is.

03:10 It's basically a wide, interconnected network of warehouses

03:14 that are filled with hard drives,

03:15 and spread across multiple locations,

03:18 so that your data can be stored in several places at once,

03:22 just in case one of these warehouses were to go offline.

03:25 So unless you were rich enough to build your own

03:28 little private network of hard drives,

03:31 the term "home office" takes on a very dark meaning.

03:34 Would the company you subscribe to

03:36 be able to profit from their access to your mind,

03:39 memories, and talents?

03:41 What stops you from being copied and coded

03:44 as some kind of AI?

03:46 And then, what if we got into androids or surrogacy?

03:50 If technology advances to the point where we can cheat death,

03:54 why not cheat age, or health?

03:58 For the first time ever,

03:59 you could have the body you always wanted.

04:02 Forever.

04:03 But if you couldn't afford a top-of-the-line model,

04:06 what might you be forced to settle for?

04:10 But actually, what's far more likely than you becoming an android,

04:14 or having your brain stored in the cloud,

04:17 is having your brain stored in a box.

04:19 Russian billionaire Dmitry Itzkoff

04:22 is currently developing what he calls a "happiness box."

04:25 It's basically a computer that can send sensations to your brain,

04:29 just like your body does today.

04:31 In fact, the happiness box is being developed to replace your body.

04:36 If you don't totally get it,

04:37 think of the movie The Matrix.

04:40 That might be the closest thing to immortality.

04:43 So, what would you choose?

04:46 The red pill,

04:48 or the blue pill?

04:51 Right now, we don't need to worry about it.

04:53 Without knowing if the technology will exist,

04:56 or when it will become available,

04:58 the most important question we should be asking ourselves is,

05:01 how to make the most of the limited time we have?

05:05 Need some ideas?

05:07 Come back soon for more What If.

05:10 [music]

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