How The Ultra Rich Are Trying To Live Forever | Trying Not To Die

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Immortality on the NHS

"By 2060, people like you or I will be able to buy it, and by 2070 people in poor countries on modest incomes will be able to buy it.

"Everyone will have a chance to have immortality, a sort of electronic immortality.

"After 10, 15, 20 years, the price comes down to hundreds of pounds, rather than millions.

"It could be provided as part of the NHS. You might be able to buy premium offerings on a private subscription, or you might get a basic presence on a network and be allowed to use an android body."

Dr. Pearson says we'll have to limit the number of android bodies people can own, however.

"You might be given one free on the NHS, but you might be limited to no more than two or three.

"Rich people that can afford it would probably want to have loads of different bodies, and if your mind is online, there's nothing to stop them replicating it millions of times over.

"You wouldn't want to live in a world where there are millions of Kardashians walking around, where they can afford to do it and nobody else can.

"We would need to limit the number of bodies for environmental impact.

"Imaging taking everybody in the UK. Once the economics allows everyone to have 10 bodies each, there would be 600 million people living here."

Method #3: Living in a virtual world

But if our minds are online, do we even need robot bodies? We could all just live in a computer simulation quite happily, according to Dr. Pearson.

"You could spend most of your time online in the virtual world, of course anywhere in the world on any computer.

"If you're online all the time, you could have a fantastic life online. It would be all virtual, so you could have anything you want. 72 virgins if that's what drives you; all of that, because it's totally imaginary.

"You could make as much fun as you could possibly imagine online. You might still want to come into the real world.

You could link your mind to millions of other minds, and have unlimited intelligence, and be in multiple places at once.

The cut-off – holding on for dear life

The tricky bit is surviving until the technology becomes widely available.

"By 2050, it will only really be for the rich and famous.

"Most people on middle-class incomes and reasonable working-class incomes can probably afford this in the 2060s. So anyone 90 or under by 2060.

"If you were born sometime in 1970 onwards, that would make you 48 this year. So anybody under 50 has got a good chance of it, and anyone under 40 almost definitely will have access to this.

"Most of your readers are probably going to live forever," Dr. Pearson tells us.

"You can take any android body and they will look human-like, and download whatever mind you want. You could share one with someone else, or have one yourself, or own dozens of them.

"You might even have ones of different genders and different ages, some old, young, female, male – there might be new genders by 2050 as well, so several other ones you can pick too."

He explains that we'll have to wait until around "2045, 2050" before we'll be able to create these strong brain-to-machine links, and says the cost will be very high initially.

The first people to use robot bodies to become immortal will be the rich, but then "the price will gradually come down."