Story idea?

[Brightonian]

Steven Hawking says in an interview with the Guardian: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers ..."

But what if there was?

[admin]

What if only Apples go to heaven, and PCs go to the other place?

[slaven41]

"And St. Peter looked up from his Great Book and saw the iPad 17 before him. 'Ah, it's about time," he said. 'I always knew this day would come. A machine of such computing power that it would achieve not just consciousness, but a soul. Enter, my friend. You are welcome here.'"

[admin]

IPads die?!?

[Brightonian]

Wouldn't it be nice to think that when you go through the pearly gates, your Commodore Pet, TRS-80 or Sinclair Spectrum will be waiting for you?

[Third Foundationer]

Sounds vaguely like Kryten's "Silicon Heaven."

--3rdF

[slaven41]

IPads die?!?

Well, not of natural causes. Maybe it got run over.

[Brightonian]

What if only Apples go to heaven, and PCs go to the other place?

A rather timely news story:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/

[Edge]

Steven Hawking says in an interview with the Guardian: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers ..."

But what if there was?

Take the hard drive out and put it into another motherboard/universe and then what, will it be better, more heavenly? Even if it's damaged its memory can be extracted. Hawking is wrong. If only we could ask the computer and know for sure.