Sergey Jukov's video salutation at the GF2045 Congress

Sergey Jukov, Head of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo:

"I am absolutely convinced that the movement “2045’ happened exactly at the right time and the right place as I believe in the great future for Russia, in her success after temporary difficulties".

Dear friends and Congress participants,

The Congress, in my view, is a kind of historical undertaking. It is a gathering of scientists, artists, religious leaders, politicians and talented people with a radically different understanding of reality, different professional backgrounds, people whose thinking is directed towards the future, whose professional trajectory prepared them for this future.

Today when the world is affected by a big number of crises, all of us understand that our little planet needs our concerted efforts to save it and that together we need to create projects for the future, to build foundations of the new ethics, new technologies, new approaches, new social policy, new international relations. In these circumstances it is very important that we come together and converse. We need to talk in order to share our worldviews, our philosophies, our visions, our talents if you want, our inspirations so that together we can give shape to the future.

I am absolutely convinced that the movement “2045’ happened exactly at the right time and the right place as I believe in the great future for Russia, in her success after temporary difficulties.

Of course our civilizations, our northern unique civilizations, possess huge power and huge potential. We have a lot to give the world and the 21st century and we must do it!

I am a test pilot-cosmonaut, someone who was brought up on the ideas of Russian cosmism, I know how important it is for us to have common vision, common space strategy, which would not only save our planet from some future misfortunes like a collision with an asteroid or a comet or something else of this sort. Space exploration is important to all people in all its aspects. It makes life better. I am convinced that if in the 21st century we will venture into space together, we will be able to physically explore the Solar system, the Moon, asteroids, Mars, we shall go even further. As I mentioned before we will need to come up with the new ethics that fits the new space age. We will need to accelerate the evolution of the human, who will be a space explorer and inhabitant. We will be dealing with the dilemmas of the new ‘space’ humanity.

To start with, there will be small communities of people living together on some asteroid or exploring the Moon in long shifts. With time, family couples will be able to join them. There will also be a challenge of exploring and settling on the planets with hostile environments such as Venice or Jupiter’s satellite Europe. Avatars would be most suited for this task. All these aspects and themes of the possible future are hugely important and fascinating to me.

I believe that at this Congress there will be, and I am not afraid to use this expression, historical meeting of people. I believe the new partnerships will emerge, new working groups will get together and be able to create something very interesting, new plans will be formed. It is fascinating and very interesting to be part of all this. I am convinced that after having absorbed all the ideas at this Congress and having been inspired by the creative atmosphere, which I am sure will be present here, everyone will increase their level of productivity in their working field. We are right to expect a whole bunch of individual and collective achievements after such a wonderful event!

Once again, wishing you all, success in your endeavours!

I hope I will personally be part of this endeavour!

Good luck and thank you.

Source: http://gf2045.com/read/124/

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Sergey
JukovHead of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo

/ experts

Mikhail Y.
YABLOKOV
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Heat-Resistant Thermoplastics Laboratory at ISPM (Russian Academy of Sciences), creator of nanosensor neurologic ‘Electronic nose’ system
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Vladimir A.
KONYSHEV
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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 . . .”
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)
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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 Vladimir G.
YAKHNO
Ph.D., Head of the Auto-wave Processes Group, Laboratory Chief at the Institute of Applied Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Alexander A.
Frolov
Professor, head of the laboratory in the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS
‘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...’
Professor Vyacheslav Y.
RYABININ
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Viktor Yurievich
Argonov
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the V.I.Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences), composer, philosopher
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Sergey
Pereslegin
Researcher, fiction and alternate history theorist. Is a literary critic and political essayist, sociologist, socionics specialist and military historian
"Project 2045 also requires enormous engineering support. And I would claim that both for Russia and for the entire world, the only possibility of overcoming the phase barrier is not to solve biological tasks, not biotechnology, but to solve the task for maintaining engineering for the critical period of 20 years".
Elena V.
TERIOSHINA
Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Russian Institute of Gerontological Research and Development
‘There is nothing to be afraid of. The project of creating a carrier of an immortal brain is of extreme importance. Nature definitely creates talented, brilliant, genius people – but they are mortal. Mankind creates books and imparts knowledge to descendants. But imagine a genius working eternally!’
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 . . .”
Dmitry V.
GALKIN
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Barry
Rodrigue
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