[Mb-civic] The Inescapable Digital Me - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

The Inescapable Digital Me

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, July 5, 2005; Page A13

In the future no one will ever die. This is what a friend once told me. 
He said that as a person aged -- maybe when he got very old -- the 
contents of his brain would be downloaded onto a computer disk and his 
decrepit body would be discarded (or maybe recycled -- who knows?). Then 
everything on the disk, which is to say our mind, our brain, our 
personality with all its quirks and disorders, would be transferred to a 
new, synthetic body, which would -- if servicing was done on schedule -- 
last approximately forever. I am here to say part of this has already 
happened to me.

This startling revelation occurred to me the day Bob Woodward, Carl 
Bernstein and Ben Bradlee confirmed that W. Mark Felt was -- as he 
insisted -- Deep Throat. I took this news with my customary aplomb 
because, among other things, I already thought I knew that Felt was 
Throat. What I did not know was what, if anything, I was going to write 
about it. A call from one of my alert editors solved my problem. It 
turned out that in 1980, I had written a column suggesting that Felt was 
Throat. Who knew?

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