Being a "futurist" seems to be a licence to write any particular guff and get publicity for it in the bargain. I am very very sceptical of the type of stuff in this recent story , especially about mind upload. I mean, we are 50 or more years aways from Astroboy and Asimov's fiction world of robots, and what have we now - a few demo models in Japan that can do a dance on stage and walk up a few stairs before the batteries run out. No moon base, no trips to Mars, and not even a reliable heavy lift rocket.
Sure, things develop and change in the world of science and technology in amazing and interesting ways - just that few people who try to see how those changes will pan out any more than, say, 10 years into the future, rarely seem to get it right.
I have read good articles about this before..must link to them if I can find one on the net.
And remember, Richard Neville calls himself a futurist. Ha!
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