We will live forever in some form at some point, so I would say yes. Likely the basic and easiest scenario would be we download ourselves and live a immortal virtual existence. Biological immortality or getting an new body or never aging your old body due to better tech, as supposed by most sci-fi authors, includes some form 'transference' by computer just for backup and safety if you are smashed by something. So moving our minds needs to come first anyway, and it would be cheap and easy for everyone.
THE CHILLING FACTS:
If 90% of us (people of earth) are merely digitally archived to live forever, that leaves plenty of room and resources for the 10% who actually can afford to live biologically forever. It could even mean that entire societies just become digital. Why have kids and live in terribly poverty when you could TRADE for something better. What you trade is having kids, reproducing and using resources. What you get is the promise your mind will be digitally archived FOREVER. In the digital world you can have kids, and your digital kids can have kids,...but they will never be physically beings.
Who is paying? Rich people are paying They are paying you not to reproduce. They are paying you to biologically die now for everlasting ever wonderful digital life...heaven in digital form. They are paying for your children and your children's children and so on to never exist physically. After 200 years the population of Earth is reduced and the only people breeding or living biological are those who can afford it. Who is paying for storage and computers to run this "world sim"? Meh, such costs are peanuts compared to the resources footprint and waste production a REAL person costs. That will be the crux, just not being born saves "the rich people" a TON of resources that would -in their opinion- be wasted on you. You living poor in in squalor is not help,nor much fun for you; and for the rich people your wasting resources better saved for their use.
You see a person is really just 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes) of data. The computational power and storage need to store & run a virtual person will be pennies a year in 100 years. A real person uses, just by being alive living in absolute poverty thousands of dollars of scare resources like water, food, etc and produces tons of waste. So yes, rich people will pay to store the poor (who will then not be living poor) and remove their progeny from physical existences in trade.
And, let's face it, if you don't agree they will just kill you anyway. Rich people have killed poor people for millennial or just let them die. This new system while sinister sounding is actually a rather good deal for everyone...very environmentally smart...and probably will be very safe and convenient as a social system.
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