cyberimmortality

cyberimmortality

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ immortality

Noun

cyberimmortality (uncountable)

1. A hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc. are transferred into a computer system.
   • 1999, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: connectivity, critique and creativity (page 207)

     ...it is quite likely that it will be a white male 'cyberelite' who will invest in cyberimmortality for themselves. Yet at the same time they will need women as real and virtual sex objects as well as menial workers/emotional supporters for their travails/travels in cyberspace.

   • 2011, Gregory R Hansell, William Grassie, H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics (page 42)

     It is this embodiment that transhumanism seeks to transcend in its most radical program of cyberimmortality.