Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil suggests we all accept our future as humachines (my term, not his). By 2045, he says, humans and machines will be integrated and there'll be no turning back: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/11/14/165032838/embracing-your-inner-robot-a-singular-vision-of-the-future
All of which reminds me of a great and all-too-short-lived TV series from the '80s called Max Headroom, in which a young genius downloads a reporter's mind and creates his computerized alter ego, Max. This part of the first episode, "Blipverts," shows the birth of Max Headroom (N.B.: maybe not so much for the very junior set) (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dku8VmyrULE&feature=relmfu
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