Russia 2045

/ The future of civilization is in our hands! Address to supporters of the Movement's ideas

There are now almost 9,000 participants of the "Russia 2045" movement. But the number of people who share our ideas and values is far greater. Among us are representatives of the most diverse professions, beliefs, and cultures, people of different ages and life experience, living and working all over the world.

/ Video presentation of the 2045 initiative’s vision for a strategy for further development of the humankind

We are facing the choice: To fall into a new Dark Age -- into affliction and degradation – or to find a new model for human development and create not simply a new civilization, but a new mankind.

/ The Dalai Lama Supports 2045’s Avatar Project

The 2045 initiative has received the blessing and support from the Dalai Lama, as it prepares to announce the second Global Future 2045 Congress, being held in New York, June, 2013. Congress will gather world leading scientists and public figures to discuss how Avatar technologies can drive human evolution.

/ "Global Future 2045" Congress Resolution Was Considered

On the February 20, 2012 After three days of seminars and presentations, Congress "Global Future 2045" closed with the round table discussion devoted to formulating concepts, forming future strategy and writing of the Congress Resolution.

/ Ray Kurzweil about GF2045 and 'Avatar'

Famous scientist, inventor, author of Singularity theory Ray Kurzweil about the Global Future 2045 Congress and the "Avatar" project.

/ Wired.com: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever

The Pentagon’s new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who’d act as “surrogates” for their human overlords in battle. But according to Dmitry Itskov, a 31-year-old Russian entrepreneur, the U.S. military’s Avatar initiative doesn’t go nearly far enough.

/ New Section on Russia 2045 Website: Technologies

Respected Experts and Participants in our Initiative! We would like to acquaint you with the roadmap for our technological project. All of the areas of our project are unified by the goal of building a Synthetic Humanoid Body.

/ Project 'Immortality 2045' - Russian Experience

Report of the Founder of the Strategic social movement "Russia 2045" Dmitry Itskov at the Singularity Summit 2011 on October 15th in New York.

/ The Problem of Bioprosthesis Control and Possible Solutions

In February 2011, a number of Russian researchers announced plans to create an artificial human body controlled by a neurointerface by the year 2045.

/ Artificial Body Technology in the Service of Man

When skeptics voice doubts about the viability of creating an artificial human body in the coming decades, it attests only to the fact that they are not very familiar with the scientific and technological achievements that have been made in this field of late. They fail to notice the monthly and daily news about technologies and scientific innovations being introduced that once seemed a part of the world of science fiction but that today are already benefiting people’s lives.

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/ experts

Dmitry
Itskov
‘Russia 2045’ Movement Founder, New Media Stars President
Do you remember The Surrogates movie? It perfectly demonstrates the abilities of a mind-controlled artificial human body, or an avatar. It is what our project is all about. The Surrogates’ screenwriters were not consistent enough (probably due to the lack of imagination) in the evolution of their ideas. There is no doubt that the mankind needs an avatar.
Timour N.
SHCHOUKINE
‘Russia 2045’ Coordinator, Ph.D. in Psychology
'The world is at the point when the functions humans consider to be their essential attributes (thinking, decision making, emotions) are on the edge of being finally alienated. Soon they will be performed by artificial systems...'
Akop Pogosovich
Nazaretyan
Ph.D. philosopher and psychologist, editor-in-chief of Historical Psychology and Sociology magazine, and a professor at Moscow State University
“The intelligence of modern man is an artificial intelligence . . .”
Dmitry A.
SHAMENKOV
President of the Center for Cellular and Biomedical Technologies, First Moscow Medical University and expert on the conscious management of health, biotherapy and the prevention of aging
‘The body gradually becomes artificial; new tissues replace existing ones, and new media, somehow extending the limits of our body, are being invented. Of course, man and technology are being knitted together. Step by step, we are moving towards the formation of a cybernetic organism...’
Professor Sergey V.
VARFOLOMEEV
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Head of the Chemical Enzymology Department at the Moscow State University, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Biochemical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
‘An electronic version of the brain is needed. The physical brain, in my opinion, can not be a subject of study, since it is very subtle. But an electronic analog having all the receptor equipment and the same story, incentives, motivation - it might be very interesting...’
Professor Aleksandr A.
BOLONKIN
Ph.D. in Technical Sciences
‘An artificial mechanical body will have great power and withstand extreme environmental conditions: high temperature, pressure, radiation, space...’
Vladimir Nikolayevich
Shabalin
“Russia was and remains full of intellectuals, despite the significant brain drain with people going abroad. But when the first results are achieved, our countrymen will gladly return and we will even attract foreign specialists . . .”
Professor Boris K.
GAVRILYUK
Ph.D. in Medicine, Head of the Cells and Tissues Growth Laboratory of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
“For skin on a cyborg, you simply need to create a nutrition system. And basically . . . we are not really complex in design! There are only a few systems: the circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients; the excretory system extirpates the waste. The rest is end-effectors. To begin we can create a very simple living organism—then, later, more complex systems. . . .”
Nick
Bostrom
PhD, Professor of Oxford University, co-founder (with David Pearce) of the World Transhumanist Association
"The digital path [of extreme longevity] would be, if we could develop technology eventually to do human whole brain emulation, where we would create a very detailed model of a particular human brain and then emulate that in the computer, where we would have an indefinite life span potential, we could make backup copies and so forth..."
Professor Vyacheslav Y.
RYABININ
Ph.D. in Biology, Inventor of the "Bioartificial liver" device
Lev Alexandrovich
Stankevich
The first step toward achieving human immortality is to create a neurally controlled avatar—a humanoid robot with a human-like skeleton and a set of artificial muscles and sensors.
Professor Alexander Y.
KAPLAN
Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Neurophysiology and Neural Interfaces Lab at the Russian State University Biology Department (MGU)
‘By the time sustaining a brain artificially becomes possible, bio-robots will have been perfected to the point of looking like a decent human body...’
Professor Alexander A.
FROLOV
PhD. in Biology, Chief of the Mathematical Neurobiology Learning Lab at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology (Russian Academy of Sciences)
‘The problem of creating artificial memory devices capable of storing the natural memory of a given individual is, understandably, complex but by no means unsolvable...’