Technology that allows human consciousness to be digitized, stored, and transferred between bodies transforms death from permanent to inconvenient for the wealthy, creating extreme inequality between those who can afford backup copies and those who cannot.
Relevant to brain-uploading speculation, wealth-based healthcare access, and the question of whether consciousness continuity technology would liberate or enslave humanity.
Domains: Medicine and Human EnhancementEconomics and Resource AllocationEthics and Philosophy of TechnologyCommunication and Information TechnologySurveillance and PrivacyGovernance and Political Systems
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyPrediction / ExtrapolationThought experiment / What-if
Outcomes: DystopianTransformativeAmbiguous / MixedCautionary
Tags: consciousness-transferbody-swappingwealth-inequalitydigital-immortalityvoluntary-body-swappingidentity-portabilityphysical-exploitationinvoluntary-memory-linkingmemory-transparencythought-privacynational-security