The movie is awful, by the way.
The movie is awful, by the way.
Except that it isn't awful. It's not great either, but it is good and interesting.
The emphasis on the emulation being approximate and the widespread (but not universal) acceptance that the mind in the machine did not have the same identity as the man who had died showed more insight into what this tech will look like was insightful.
The swarms of nanobots were presented very well. I find it incredibly pleasurable and I think educational to see things like that depicted in a movie. It is one thing to read about swarms...
Nick Bostrom takes on the facts, the fictions and the speculations in the movie Transcendence:
Could you upload Johnny Depp's brain? Oxford Professor on Transcendence
How soon until machine intelligence? Oxford professor on Transcendence
Would you have warning before artificial superintelligence? Oxford professor on Transcendence
Oxford professor on Transcendence: how could you get a machine intelligence?