Death could become a thing of the past by the mid-21st century as computer technology becomes sophisticated enough for the contents of a brain to be "downloaded" onto a supercomputer, according to a leading British futurologist.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050522/323/fjiiv.html

I'm still amazed we cope with only four computers on the entire planet....;)

contents of a brain to be "downloaded" onto a supercomputer

Some of the people I know would only require a 1.44mb floppy.

If a Playstaion is 1% as powerfull as the human brain why are the games so hard to finish ?

One of the "primary reasons" for such work would be to give computers emotions, Pearson said.

"If I'm on an aeroplane I want the computer to be more terrified of crashing than I am so it does everything to stay in the air until it's supposed to be on the ground."
That doesn't sound very ethical to me.