You can now buy immortality (of a sort) for less than $70.
Entrepreneurs plan to send digital representations of their customers into the
cosmos. The Californian company SpaceDev, which plans to send a probe to the
asteroid Nereus in 2002, has signed a contract to carry a CD-ROM bearing digital
photos for Dojin International of Texas. “Fifty million years from now, when
every last trace of humanity has been erased from planet Earth, a digital
representation of you will still exist in the physical Universe, drifting
through space for all eternity,” Dojin promises.
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