title: Evolution of Immortality: Extreme Futurism in the Eyes of a Humanist
author: Adam Stanczyk
description: Adam Stanczyk, a native of Warsaw, Poland, earned a master's degree in architecture from Warsaw Polytechnic University. He immigrated to the United States in 1984 and obtained an architectural registration license from the N.C.B.A. . He was a consulting architect for North Carolina State University and currently lives in North Carolina.
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  Immortality, but at what price, in what form, and how could you be you? In the
  near future it’s possible to build a new you, a better you, one that could
  carry on forever. But if you could carry on, if you could make choices about
  who you would be forever, how much of your past would you bring with you?
  Would you be tempted to maybe…edit? Adam isn’t all that he used to be, but he
  wants to be.
  
  
  
  
  
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  In a pause in the flow of images, it came to him that he’d been dreaming for a
  fathomless time and that he wished to stop. But when he tried to picture the
  scene that would greet him upon waking, his mind grabbed the question and ran
  with it, not so much changing the subject as summoning out of the darkness
  answers that he was sure had long ago ceased to be correct. He remembered the
  bunk beds he and his brother had slept in 