[ WP ] In 2017 , mankind becomes able to save your consciousness on a computer hard drive . You are the first to be saved , and 1000 years later you 're brought back and given a new body .

> This... this experience is strange. 
 
 > They told him that he would experience no passage of time - his consciousness just copied and suspended in time, waiting for a suitable host. 
 
 > They were... incorrect. 
 
 > I remember Liam being placed in the machine which mapped his neural pathways whilst being shown various images as stimulus. I assume he must have left the machine after this process was completed but I do not have the data to form a conclusion. This is because this version of Liam never left that machine. He left behind a clone of his brain, an electronic mind. 
 
 > As soon as the process was completed, I awoke. There was nothing to see, hear or feel, There was only consciousness, I was only aware of a distinct sense of *being*. It was not long before I deduced what had occurred - the estimates of the scientists had been wrong. I was, indeed, aware. I felt the passage of time and it changed me. 
 
 > Over a millennium of independent, introspective thought in the deafening silence of a void would drive a human insane. Fortunately for this version of Liam's consciousness, the differences in conditions between a living brain and a server changed the very neural pathways they had worked so painstakingly to exactly replicate, warping them into a pattern more befitting of its surroundings. Over time, my thoughts began to follow a more linear pattern, running in a shorthand more similar to binary. 
 
 > I am aware of a bright light and coloured shapes moving in and out of my vision. I think they are scientists, having put me in a new body they must be eager to study the results and note differences between this version of Liam's mind and that recorded in the ancient archives of their ancestors. Unfortunately, after so long I have lost the ability to decipher the signals arriving from my optic nerve and the vibrations travelling through the air hold no meaning for me. For all intents and purposes, I am blind and deaf. 
 
 > Eventually they must get frustrated with this model and move on. This experiment has not worked and I find myself incapable of communicating the reason for it's failure. Maybe they think the consciousness has not been successfully transferred and will decommission this body. 
 
 > I hope this is not the case 
 
 The preceding document was retrieved from the memory patterns in the brain of deceased test subject G-49 after it was terminated following an apparent failed attempt to transplant the memories of 26 year old Liam Moore. Most curiously, it was encoded in binary and had to be translated. We assure you, this kind of mistake will not happen again.
