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My Daughter, My Wife, Our Robot, and the Quest for Immortality

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Explore a captivating TED talk featuring Martine Rothblatt, founder of Sirius XM satellite radio and current CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Delve into Rothblatt's remarkable journey, from developing life-saving medicines for rare diseases to her groundbreaking efforts in digital consciousness preservation. Discover how her personal experiences, including saving her daughter's life with a drug her company produced, have shaped her innovative pursuits. Learn about her ambitious project to digitally preserve her wife's consciousness and create a companion robot. Through an engaging onstage conversation with TED's Chris Anderson, gain insights into Rothblatt's powerful narrative of love, identity, creativity, and the boundless potential of human ingenuity. Witness a thought-provoking discussion that challenges conventional notions of life, death, and the future of human consciousness.

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Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality

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