11:48 am The Amazon series
Upload shows a comedic and probably more realistic version of what would happen if humans could live online after they die. Courtesy of Amazon Studios
In the Amazon original series
Upload, a young programmer named Nathan Brown uploads his mind to virtual reality after his body is critically injured in a car accident. Mind uploading is a familiar trope, but science fiction author Tobias S. Buckell says that
Upload presents an interesting new spin on the idea.
“We’ve all heard about people getting uploaded, and we all know how people can use the virtual world to live out their fantasies, but it was really interesting how the virtual world becomes a world with consequences and problems and issues that the character has to navigate,” Buckell says in Episode 457 of the