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Yes to “Russia 2045”!
I hereby join and declare myself an active participant in this project. Moreover, I see in it a continuation of the ideas that I promoted together with Rodin Rusovy in the book “Superman Speaks Russian”, in “The Third Project” and in “Humanity of the Future” together with Igor Boshchenko.
I’ve always said and I say now: The white (Western and Russian) part of humanity is in crisis. A low birth rate together with the inevitable aging of the population (with an equivalent loss of passion and creative potential), dysgenics, deindustrialization, descientization, and the development of new (postindustrial, postmodern) savagery are signs of degradation. The dead end of liberal monetary capitalism is clearly evident, what’s more on a global level. Even such a staunch liberal economist as the head of the Russian Academy of National Economy, Vladimir Mau, admits that there is no new model of development.
In the Russian world (the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belorussia), the crisis of man is reflected in its most disgusting and protuberant form. We are dying out: By 2020, there will be twice as many graves as cradles in the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belorussia. After that will come only degeneration, physical degradation. What has been done with the high-tech industry, with science and education, over the last 20 years does not need to be discussed. We are rapidly turning into a land of mentally ill, physically weak, uneducated, unqualified idiots. We are becoming “excess biomass”, what’s more aging biomass. The infamous “5 Priorities” proffered by the government are not pulling us up out of this abyss. They are not providing us a breakthrough into the future; not making a reality the fashionable saying about having to do something that no one in the world has ever done.
As I have said before and as I say now, the only way to save Russians from death is a breakthrough into “science fiction”, into the creation of a completely new world. “Russia 2045” is a project precisely in that vein. It’s what no one in the world has yet resolved to do. The creation of super- and post people I believe will save us from degradation and extinction and will provide us with new strength. This can make Russia a world leader.
Yes, there will be many problems. Yes, super- and post people will demand the creation of completely new societal relations. The coexistence of normal people—short-lived (one-life) sapiens—and new forms of humans will engender many problems and conflicts. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step! You have to move forward, just as those who conquered fire once moved, and just as did those who domesticated the first animals and invented the wheel, mastered metallurgy and built the first cities in the history of mankind.
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KalashnikovRussian futurologist writer, journalist
"This is something that nobody in the world could pass up. Creation of super- and posthuman, I believe, is a gaining of new strength while saving from degeneration and extinction, . This could potentially make Russia the world leader…’
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- Head of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo
Sergey
Jukov"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".
- Researcher, fiction and alternate history theorist. Is a literary critic and political essayist, sociologist, socionics specialist and military historian
Sergey
Pereslegin"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".
- Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Russian Institute of Gerontological Research and Development
Elena V.
TERIOSHINA‘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!’
- Doctor of physics and mathematics, Head of the Department of Neuroinformatics at the Center for Optical Neural Technologies of the Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Witali L.
Dunin-Barkowski' If the job is to be taken seriously, we can get a detailed model of a brain prototype within five years or so. And since many research areas concerned with the subject develop in parallel, it may well be that we can achieve these results even faster...'
- Professor at the University of Southern Maine, co-chairman of GF2045
Barry
Rodrigue"While innovation is often presented as a technological process, it also needs to be applied everywhere and to everything. We need innovation in human affairs, from family relations to business affairs. Innovation has to address both ecological balance of species and destruction of inorganic habitats. Alternatives must be found for warfare and the arms industry. In short, innovation is a process that applies to all existence..."
- Researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author
Anders
Sandberg"... I certainly think that practical benefits of being able to live for ever, if I transmit myself digitally, I will be able to run on bodies which are not biological or enhanced biological and be able to backup copies in case, if something goes wrong, would be enormous. So, I think, that in the future I am hoping to be software..."
- Artist, art theorist, Curator of the National Center of Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch)
Dmitry H.
BULATOV‘In the near future, hybrid combinations of living and nonliving elements will help to recover lost or missing original features. And of course, greatly enhance them in comparison to the usual ones...’
- Correspondent member of RAS, professor of the Moscow State University, head of the laboratory “Psychology of communications and psychosemantics” (MSU)
Viktor F.
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Vladimir A.
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- 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)
Professor Sergey V.
VARFOLOMEEV‘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...’
- Ph.D. in Biology, Inventor of the "Bioartificial liver" device
Professor Vyacheslav Y.
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