What will your next body be like?

A scene from R.U.R., showing three robots (credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Many engineers, including Ray Kurzweil, think that some time around 2050, we will be able to make very high quality links between the brains and machines. … If your mind is so well connected, you could inhabit a new body, without having to vacate your existing one.

Using a detachable brain is one option, or not to put a brain in at all, using empty immobile husks that are switched on and then linked to your remote mind in the cloud to become alive.

Most likely they would be inorganic. I don’t think it will be ethically acceptable to grow cloned bodies in some sort of farm and remove their brains, so using some sort of android is probably best all round. …

You could be any species, fantasy character, alien, robot, android or pretty much any imaginary form that could be fabricated. You could be any size or shape from a bacterium to an avatar for an AI spaceship, or any gender. …”