You guys are thinking too much into this. Any third party you entrust your secret to (bank authorities, lawyers, software etc) is a potential point of breach.

Just keep your information in hard copy (papers, journals etc), put it in a box, lock it up and bury it. Entrust the secret and key to a son/daughter with strict instructions it is not to be opened until you pass away, with the warning that the secrets revealed may destroy the family.

The less people know about it, the more secure it is.

I'd rather trust family who have an interest in protecting your secrets rather than some stranger or worse, impersonal unthinking code. And having a living, thinking secret keeper who can respond to challenges and situations you may not even forsee is far more effective.

"(2) the permission to destroy the originals (you'll always find a few volunteers)" why? So, the send a copy of me, so what? It's Geekoid2. It's not going to come back and claim my social security benefits.

Of course; if we can build people, we would build more optimized people and not copies. Skin color, hair growth, strength, spectrum off vision would all be customized to the unique properties of that planet.

Holy Christopher Columbus! Was it bring your favourite programming language to work month?

Its so frustrating to hear people on the news talk about how a doctor wouldn't treat them because he didn't take "obamacare".

36, 24, 36.

What will happen is upheaval, famine and, yes, war. Same way that humans always handle situations with limited resources.

If you're deployed for six months and you like to read you've brought your own e-reader loaded with books you want to read with you.

The other good reason I thought of* is the fact that old, analog electronics are more likely to survive the EMP from a nuclear blast than modern, solid-state stuff. To wit, if a well-placed air-burst nuke drops EM radiation across the continental US, my 2009 pickup will be effectively dead, but my 1967 Mustang, with it's points-type ignition and lack of electronics, will fire and run like always.

* of course, this only applies if the systems in use at the missile silos are analog.

once past the physical security

So what happens to the rabbits then?

With golf, you get to drink even when you lose!