Humans could eventually become immortal, not with their bodies, but by merging their brains with androids.

You connect to an android to use as your body from now on, attend your funeral, and then carry on as before, still you, just with a younger, highly upgraded body.

Technological developments mean that humanity is on a path to a World in which it will be possible to decode people’s mental processes and directly manipulate the brain mechanisms underlying their intentions, emotions and decision.

The possible clinical and societal benefits of neurotechnologies are vast. To reap them, humanity must guide their development in a way that respects, protects and enables what is best.

No one raises ethical objections if this brain-machine connection is used to treat a disease or improve the quality of life of people paralyzed by an accident or those who are blind or deaf.

But controversy erupts if the same techniques are applied to improve the capacities of the Human mind.

In the near future, as the interfaces between brain and computer not only restore functions lost by people with disabilities, but enhance the abilities of people without disabilities above their natural Human capacities, we will have to become aware of a series of problems related to consent, privacy, identity, action and inequality.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity. The brain-machine interface to connect humans and computers is essential if Humans are to compete with such technology in the future.

The goal is to help humanity achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence and achieve a democratization of intelligence such that it is not monopolistically held by governments and large corporations.

By around 2050, this could be a reality. Though some people may need to wait until 2060 or later until android price falls enough for them to afford one.