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The ability to download human conciousness, store it, and upload it into a new body.
Live as long as you like, experience old age if you like (or don't). Learn everything you want to learn. Do everything you want to do. Finally humans would actually have a soul.
Something similiar happens in John Varley's novel, Steel Beach. Set in the future, humans have developed the ability to change their bodies and gender via advanced nanotechnology. When people feel the need for a change, they simply nip off to the local hospital and sculpt their bodies to their desires. At one point, the protagonist of the novel, Hildy, a man, changes into a woman. If memory serves, once Hildy is a woman, she has reservations about having sex with men because she doesn't like being so "vulnerable" (Varley's words, not mine).
Steel Beach is not without its flaws, but it is a very good SF novel in that it really explores how science impacts the development of human society. Indeed, due to nanobot technology, humans can live virtually forever. However, hundreds of years of living and acquiring life experience still doesn't teach wisdom, and some people remain sick fucks.
Anyhow, to answer the question posed by this thread, I'd like it if someone would develop aromanet; ex: The ability to smell aromas off the internet. I'm an unrepentant perfume junkie, frequently buying perfume and fragrance oils through the internet. Sometimes I've been delighted with my purchases, and sometimes I've been deeply disappointed. If there was such a thing as aromanet, I could try the perfumes before buying. |
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