My brain will reside in a jar at the Central Brain Bank while my AI avatar cavorts with extraterrestrials in the galaxy-wide virtual HoloNet. Either that or I'll be Tivo'ing reruns of "Golden Girls" in Miami. - Sprague D

Now the better question is can you have both? - Steve Spalding

Half robot, baby! pew! pew! lasers! - Geoff Schultz

See I'm optimistic about the future. - Geoff Schultz

the oil's gone.there is no more plastic, no more artificial fertilizer, no more pharmaceutical feedstock. we live in an agrarian world after a convulsive and traumatic period of famine, epidemic, war, and population die-off. the internet is a distant memory; children don't believe it ever existed. same with private passenger cars and commercial aviation. - Nathan Rein

@Nathan Malthusian check then agrarian utopia? It might take a bit more than 20 years without a very, very serious "booboo" in the near future. - Steve Spalding

@Geoff I have you have a half-robot baby too. ;) - Steve Spalding