The folks at the Blue Brain Project have been hard at work developing artificial brains – they’ve already simulated a rat brain – and they believe they can have a working human brain replica in about 10 years or so:
Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said.
“It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years,” he said.
“And if we do succeed, we will send a hologram to TED to talk.”
That works for me. In another 10 years I could probably use an artificial brain. Especially if I keep doing these Blogathons.
There’s hope for George “Dubya” Bush yet!
I suspect their prediction will be as accurate as all those “commercial fusion power is 10 years away” ones.