Two men, Alex and Zach, are in the hospital together, and both are diagnosed with some awful terminal illness. They chat, and Zach says he's getting frozen at his friend's cryogenics firm. Alex is wealthy and has no next of kin he wishes to leave it to, so he puts his money in a trust held by his parents and goes on ice with Zach.
A few years later, Alex's parents miss him, and no real progress has been made towards curing his disease or even towards reviving frozen people. So they get him cloned and name the clone Brandon.
But unbeknown to anyone, Alex's girlfriend stole a sample of Alex's DNA and had it combined with her own so that she can have his child, ho she named Charlie.
A few years later, still no progress has been made towards reviving frozen people, but the technology has advance to scan frozen brains, 3D print exact copies with memories intact and implant those into cyborg bodies. And so the cryogenics firm allows a brain-printing company to transplant a copy of Alex's brain into a shiny cyborg, who they name Duane.
But the brain-printing company's Term and Conditions page, which most people click on without reading, allows them to sell customer brain scan to a company researching mind-uploading.They create and boot up a digital copy of Alex's mind on a super-computer. The copy is convinced that it's Alex, but they name it Eric.
Not long later, they download a copy of Eric into an android body and name it Frank.
Meanwhile, the brain-printing company has figured out how to print actual bodies with the scanned brains, so now they print a complete copy of frozen Alex. But the copy is imperfect and missing a few of Alex's memories. But they do coordinate with other companies on their alphabetical naming, so they name the imperfect copy George.
A few years later, Alex's parents miss him, and no real progress has been made towards curing his disease or even towards reviving frozen people. So they get him cloned and name the clone Brandon.
But unbeknown to anyone, Alex's girlfriend stole a sample of Alex's DNA and had it combined with her own so that she can have his child, ho she named Charlie.
A few years later, still no progress has been made towards reviving frozen people, but the technology has advance to scan frozen brains, 3D print exact copies with memories intact and implant those into cyborg bodies. And so the cryogenics firm allows a brain-printing company to transplant a copy of Alex's brain into a shiny cyborg, who they name Duane.
But the brain-printing company's Term and Conditions page, which most people click on without reading, allows them to sell customer brain scan to a company researching mind-uploading.They create and boot up a digital copy of Alex's mind on a super-computer. The copy is convinced that it's Alex, but they name it Eric.
Not long later, they download a copy of Eric into an android body and name it Frank.
Meanwhile, the brain-printing company has figured out how to print actual bodies with the scanned brains, so now they print a complete copy of frozen Alex. But the copy is imperfect and missing a few of Alex's memories. But they do coordinate with other companies on their alphabetical naming, so they name the imperfect copy George.
