Discovery News 11.11.2012
A
Russian mogul wants to achieve cybernetic immortality for humans
within the next 33 years. He's pulled together a team intent on creating
fully functional holographic human avatars that house our artificial
brains. Now he's asking billionaires to help fund the advancements
needed along the way.
Top 5 Scariest Bioweapons: Photos
The
man behind the 2045 Initiative, described as a nonprofit
organization, is a Russian named Dmitry Itskov. The ambitious timeline
he's laid out involves creating different avatars. First a robotic
copy that's controlled remotely through a brain interface. Then one in
which a human brain can be transplanted at the end of life. The next
could house an artificial human brain, and finally we'd have
holographic avatars containing our intelligence much like the movie
"Surrogates."
Recently
Itskov published an open letter to the Forbes world's billionaires
list telling them that they have the ability to finance the extension
of their own lives up to immortality. He writes that he can prove the
concept's viability to anyone who's skeptical and will coordinate
their personal immortality projects for free. PopSci's Clay
Dillowdescribed Itskov in March as a 31-year-old media mogul, but I
couldn't find a detailed biography for him.
Full story here
No comments:
Post a Comment