Sydney Blumenthal - The World's First Digital Human

This story is a bizarre adventure in neuroscience. It describes a small group of scientists and friends working in Oxford who because of an accident are forced to embrace the principle of self-experimentation. The consequences of their actions are not only unforeseen but quite unprecedented in the world of biological science - especially when they digitalise the entire conscious personality of Sydney Blumenthal a leading member of the group. As the story unfolds it tries - I hope in an entertaining way - to explore the tantalising cross-over between computer science genetics and medical science together with all the strange legal and ethical ramifications this cross-over creates. It is this potent fertile mixture of disciplines which in many ways is already defining the future of medicine. However I have no doubt that the medical wonders that will in fact come to define the future will far outstrip the scope of this story.