The US government is researching how combat experience can be downloaded in to the heads of raw airforce recruits. Other researchers have already figured out how to operate machines simply by thinking about the action you require (useful if you’re physically disabled for instance). How long before you can download your life into another brain or download your consciousness into a machine? Trends like life-caching would seem to indicate that the former is starting to happen already but the latter is  a very long way off.