make humans immortal by converting them
into "Terminator-style" cyborgs – a creature
that's part human and part machine – within
the next three decades.
Thirty two-
year-old
mogul, Dmitry
Itskov has
been pushing
the project
forward since
2011 when he
founded the
2045 Initiative.
His ultimate goal is to transfer a person's mind or
consciousness from a living brain into a machine
with that its personality and memories intact.
The so called "Cyborg" will have no physical form,
and exist in a network similar to the Internet and
be able to travel at the speed of light all over the
Earth, or even into the space.
Itskov's first highly ambitious goal, called Avatar A,
involves a person controlling a robotic human
replica through a brain-machine interface (BMI), a
technology that already exists.
The deadline for this first stage is set for 2020. The
Avatar B, due in 2025, would involve transplanting
a human brain into an artificial body "at the end of
one's life."
Next in line is the Avatar C, that rolls around in
2035, that would also involve a human-machine
brain transplant, but with all personality intact.
Itskov hopes the Initiative will have learned enough
about the human mind to free it completely from
physical form finally, by 2045.
According to the report, from the Internet-like hive
mind, individual personalities could manifest
themselves as holograms when they need to
interact with their environment.
"We believe that it is possible and necessary to
eliminate ageing and even death, and to overcome
the fundamental limits of the physical and mental
capabilities currently set by the restrictions of the
physical body," the project website says.
Itskov is recruiting scientists and authoring an
open letter to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-
moon, asking him to support to push society's
transition to "neo humanity."
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