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RodgerTheGreat
Assuming the technology preserves enough information to make a future "restoration" possible (which is an open question), prospective participants might want to try playing Frictional Games' Soma and see if this still sounds like a good idea.
geoah
Book wise I’d suggest Bobiverse by denis taylor, permutation city and zendegi by greg egan, and fall by stevenson.
rdtwo
You can pay for the backup but who is going to pay for the restoration
fallingfrog
Probably someone who wants a cheap slave. After all why not make a few million copies and set them to work filing taxes or driving autonomous vehicles? Or as robocops. You could be in all sorts of delightful situations when you wake up. Then if you start to refuse orders they can delete you and spool up a new copy.
rdtwo
I’d expect to be partial restoration and be a museum piece or some sort of side show example of early attempts at memory backup
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