Your Digital Personality

Do you have a digital personality?

Wikipedia – A set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another

Whilst we all crave for individuality you maybe surprised to know just how similar you are to everyone else, well, if you look at your digital personality that is.

You have a professional persona on Linkedin.com, all your indiscretionsss, are on facebook, myspace, or maybe flicker or waye. Your music habits are on spotify.com and your viewing habits are on iplayer or 4OD. Your buying habits are on ebay and Amazon, your reading interests are on the BBC not forgetting your sexual preferences that maybe derived from Ann summers or a range of pornographic content you may of accidentaly stumbled upon. Now add the tracking statistics of your google, msn or yahoo searches together the whole host of new inter activities on your brand new iphone. Finally lets throw in whatever your IP address associates you to, and yes, that’s right you have yourself a digital personality.

What happens when we construct a computer with as much processing power as a human brain. That’s somewhere in the region of 100 million MIPs, which is a Million computer Instructions Per Second. Its widely thought we will develop machines with that level of complexity at some point in the 2020s. Then we’ll be able to record every detail of a human brain, memory for memory, neuron for neuron, like for like and dislike for dislike, every emotion and value and want, onto that computer.

Add the last two paragraphs together and just how dis-similar will we be? I guess time will tell

Now then, why don’t we add our own individual electronically mapped DNA profile into our brand spanking new super computer and create an al rounded picture of ourselves?

If over 30 years ago we can build the infrastructure to put a man on the moon, why isn’t the above already possible?

Maybe it already is!