A top scientist has claimed that in the next two decades, people will be able to back up the human brain including all of the memories. Award-winning Raymond Kurzweil, 62, told 500 guests at a sponsored “future talk’’ event in Vienna, Austria, that the human brain backup was now already technically possible. “I believe that within the next 20 years we will have thousands of nanobot computer machines in our blood that will heal our bodies, improve our performance, and even be able to back up all the contents of our brains, just as you backup your files on a computer,” the Daily Mail quoted Kurzwell as saying.
“That means they would back up every thought, every experience, everything that makes us an individual,” he added. Kurzweil has notched up a string of pioneering computer inventions.
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NZ might lose Hobbit filming
Wellington: New Zealand may lose the filming of The Hobbit movies because of an actors’ pay dispute, with financial backers Warner Bros. making arrangements to shift the production elsewhere, director Peter Jackson warned on Thursday.
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy relied heavily on the rugged landscape of New Zealand, which in turn rec-eived a tourism boost after becoming associated with Tolkien’s fantasy world inhabited by hairy-footed little people. But the $500-million, two-movie prequel may end up shooting somewhere else. —AP