Transferring your brain to a robot in the future itll be no big deal (Getty Images/Digital Vision)

In the future, ultra rich individuals will be able to transplant their brains into lifelike robots and achieve a level of immortality

Thats according to noted futurist Dr. Ian Pearson who explained that these billionaires will be able to fund special silicone-based robots with special abilities straight out of what we consider science fiction.

There would be no need for human cloning, we can create Westworld-style androids with rigid skeletons, he told the Daily Star.

These would have muscle-like fibres grown to human flesh, and they would be 10-15 times stronger than human muscle.

Arguing his point further, Dr. Pearson says his predictions are built on the current level of technology we see in the world today. Retina implants and microchips beneath the skin are already here, so its feasible we may be able to back up our thoughts and memories to a computer.

Think of it as like adding an extension to the brain, similar to adding a conservatory to a house, he said.

Dr. Pearson believes that in the next 40 years these predictions will come true: By 2060, this could become more mainstream, he told the Star.

Furthermore, some of this delicious immortal technology may have trickled down from the ultra rich folk to be available to mere mortals.

You could even get to live as a pet cat if the android was created.

While we wait for the future to catch up to these, ahem, interesting ideas you can get some sense of what itd be like thanks to Netflix. The streaming service has an original series called Altered Carbon where humans can transfer their consciousnesses to new bodies called sleeves.

So far, nobody appears to have adopted a cat sleeve, though.

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