Biomachina
The coming age
Biological machines able to achieve a virtual self where the physicality of the parent biological process is not needed will be a different species (about 100 years off, 50 off say a public work funded it through a public state). One thing about it, long before we get there, say in the next few decades, increasingly people will decide they don't want to be networked and the ability to opt out to start with has to come first, and as a sacred right, before anything else will work properly to encompass freedom. The ability to control monitoring and affecting biological, or machine processes, including in combination, is a right given through both the Environmental Pact and the Dossier Act (Not The Constitution nor any binding documents of most nation states, gives you such rights, nor does even most of your religious and theological documents). Your dim witted politicos can't even understand such rights and would rather you not be able to exercise such or similar anyway, they'd rather use such things to strengthen forced compliance models. Before the technology matures, we must have clarity on the sanctity of personal freedom from networking. Many will never want to be part of such things, and all should have such rights to be or not to be.
At The World Council, we work on these things, the legality of emerging technologies on personal freedoms. Your masters in your governments, could care less as long as money and control is involved to their liking. Quit letting purely your national states reliant upon wars and prosecutions decide these things, and shape your identity, for you. Declare yourself a Free Person and begin to define it, for them.
The World Council - http://rockfest.altervista.org/council
Dossier Act - http://rockfest.org/freedom/dossier.html
The Environmental Pact (see section C on Environmental warfare for pertinent info) - http://rockfest.org/freedom/environmental.html
Public States - http://rockfest.org/freedom/publics.html