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Writer's Block: Checklist for Eternity

If I'm living forever, it depends somewhat on how, right? If I'm a wrinkly, feeble thing whose legs failed him decades before, then I'll be in bed thinking my great thoughts for the stenographers' benefit, and waiting for the nurse to change my bedpan.

More likely, if it occurs, it'll be because Kurzweil was right. My brain, such as it is, will have been captured as a disk image by some machine not yet invented, and long after my mortal body is gone, I'll be alive in the RAM of some repository of human minds. It may even provide some sort of virtual sensory experience to benefit me during the seconds in any year when my mind isn't being harnessed with millions of others to work on solutions to some problem or issue, out in the world of the living.

Of course, this would put me in a terrible position to negotiate with my employer for anything, but if I'm a ghost lingering in electronic storage, I guess my needs will be small.