The last purely biological adult cohort (no upload or major enhancement) died out in 2071.The Mind Uploading Acceleration is complete.Humanity is mostly mind — distributed, forked, eternal. The physical world is a garden, visited but not lived in by the majority….
When Millions Choose Digital and the Physical World Starts Emptying
March 21, 2028.Continuum Labs announces the 100,000th full human upload.The subject: a healthy 48-year-old tech executive who chose elective destructive upload “for continuity and enhancement.”Cost: $680,000.Runtime: the digital self wakes with 99.4 % continuity, reports “I feel like I’ve been asleep…
When the First Complete Human Minds Wake Digital and the Continuity Question Becomes Personal
May 3, 2027.Continuum Labs in Austin announces the first full destructive human upload.Subject: a 58-year-old terminal cancer patient who opted for “continuity preservation” at end-of-life.Method: high-resolution cryo-slicing post-clinical death, full connectome mapped at 2 nm resolution, emulation on custom neuromorphic cluster.Runtime:…
When Volunteers Line Up to Scan Their Brains and the First Partial Uploads Wake Up
August 19, 2026.The Austin consortium (now rebranded “Continuum Labs”) announces the successful non-destructive partial upload of a human volunteer: a 42-year-old terminal ALS patient who retained full consciousness during the process.Scan method: high-density Neuralink implant (18,000 channels) + real-time fMRI +…
The Week the First Rat Brain Ran in Silicon (and Humanity Realized the Copy Was Already Better Than the Original)
December 13, 2025.A preprint drops on bioRxiv from a private lab in Austin (backed by a consortium of Neuralink alumni and anonymous billionaire funding).Title: “Full-Fidelity Emulation of a Mammalian Brain at Single-Neuron Resolution in Neuromorphic Hardware.” The subject: a rat sacrificed…