This seems to be right out of futuristic TV shows like Futurama, where there are functioning preserved heads of people in jars attached to life support systems, some such heads even ruling the metropolis:
  http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Heads_in_Jars
  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/26/revolutionary-step-toward-immortality-pig-brains-kept-alive-outside-bodies/

     The aim behind all of this is for the elites to be able to survive death. Thus, for example, George Soros gets to live forever, perhaps in a robot body. God help us!