Global Future 2045
Will humans ever conquer death and achieve immortality?
That's the goal of the
Global Future 2045 Congress, which brings together a mix of roboticists, neurologists, genome researchers, and engineers to map out the entirety of human consciousness. Annie Colette Gaus from
Tech Feed attended the 2013 congress earlier this month to talk to the speakers and check out the androids and robotics on display.
Global Futures 2045 is organized annually (this was the second) by the 2045 Initiative and its founder, Russian tech entrepreneur
Dmitry Itskov, who at 32 years of age has turned his vast financial resources and dogged determination toward understanding and conquering some of the 21st century's most challenging and exciting frontiers, including human consciousness, brain-machine interfaces, and the integration of biology and technology.
The ultimate goal of Itskov's
Avatar Project (part of the 2045 Initiative) is to free humankind from the limitations imposed on it by the body, first by figuring out how to remove the brain (and the conscious self) from the body and keep it alive in a robotic surrogate, and ultimately how to upload the mind -- consciousness and all -- to a computer. The deadline for delivering this kind of digital immortality: 2045.
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| Peter Diamandis at the Global Futures 2045 congress - Image Source AP Photo/Mary Altaffer |
One of the most dynamic and inspirational talks was by
Peter Diamandis, co-author of
Abundance, who as well as talking about backing ourselves up, brought up the notion that we have the ability, within our lifetimes, to back-up all the biology of earth off-world in the form of the genetic information we are now collecting.
The congress was also one of the last public appearances of
Dr. James Martin, who sadly passed away this week. He will be sorely missed.
SOURCE Tech Feed
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