I saw this in the paper the other day...is Silence In The Library about to take a step closer to becoming reality?

The Independent

If the technology actually came to exist in your lifetime, would you use it? And if you did choose to do so, when exactly would you do it? Would you do it at the first available opportunity or wait until you knew that you were near death before doing so? Do you think it would become a means of having some sort of immortality, or do you think it would become something of a nightmare for anyone involved?

Of course, this is still totally in the fields of science fiction and speculation at the moment and I really can't see it happening for a long time, if ever. But what do you think? If you copied your brain patterns, lifetime's knowledge and memories onto a computer, would that still be you?