[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 3 (Continued)

 Images of Neuralink and Musk Robots, Boston Dynamics

VO: There are already people talking about uploading our minds.  Granted, serious scientists think that this is still a while down the road, but the money being spent on this is billions not millions of dollars.  As our current population gets older, the forever young generation looks for ways to stay young forever and one of those options is ‘uploading your brain to the internet.’

Images of Ponce De Leon, Fountain of Youth, Immortality

VO: The ramifications about an end of death also makes it even harder for the youngest generation to get ahead.  Whole science fiction stories from Altered Carbon to Lazarus Long have been written about the cost to society if death takes longer or even never happens. In our hyper stratified society; death would be optional for the rich and a necessity for everyone else.  Technology is a tool; the problem is who gets to own the tools, use them and decide how they are distributed, and wealth alone seems a poor choice for immortality.

Images of Rich and Poor

Voice Over: But its worse than that.  What happens if they get a pirated copy of your mind? Silicon Valley not only can’t protect our private data, but they use it for marketing and turn their customers into their product.  They have almost no interest in limiting themselves despite addition, depression, suicidal tendencies and self harm; and we expect them to be trustworthy with our very minds?  If they steal your identity, you spend thousands of hours and thousands of dollars to get it back.  If they steal your mind, you could be a virtual slave until the stars burn out from the skies as millions upon millions of copies of yourself are taken from virtual world to virtual world.