“The basic premise of my book is that the next big revolution on the scale of the farming and industrial revolutions will come from human level artificial intelligence in the form of brain emulations (ems). Yes, because people have asked I've estimated that this will happen within roughly a century, but that estimate isn't central.”
Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University; author of The Age of Em
Whole-brain emulation has not been achieved; the ~2116 horizon is far in the future, and Hanson himself notes the century estimate is not central to his argument.