\n — @adurdin is thinking aloud

The True Origin of iPhone 4S’s Siri

The point is, if we can store music on a compact disc, why can’t we store a man’s intelligence and personality on one? So, I have the engineers figuring that one out now. Brain mapping, artificial intelligence, we should have been working on it 30 years ago. I will say this, and I’m gonna say it on tape so everyone hears it 100 times a day: if I die before you people can pour me into a computer, I want Siri to run this place. Now she’ll argue, she’ll say she can’t - she’s modest like that. But you make her! Hell, put her in my computer, I don’t care.

— Steve Jobs, early 2011

(with apologies to Cave Johnson)