23 Leading Scientists, Technologists, Entrepreneurs and Spiritual Leaders Issue Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Support the Forming of a New Evolutionary Strategy for Humanity at the Second International Global Future 2045 Congress in New York, June 15-16.
/ Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
The path to neo-humanity as the foundation of the ideology of the “Evolution 2045” party
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D.I. Dubrovsky: “Cybernetic immortality. Fantasy or scientific problem?”
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The Dalai Lama Supports 2045’s Avatar Project
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Make a Mark in History. Address to Members of Forbes Richest List
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Ray Kurzweil about GF2045 and 'Avatar'
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Carbon Nanotubes Capture Electrical Signals Between Neurons
Researchers at Duke University have used a carbon nanotube to capture electrical signals from individual neurons.
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Dmitry Itskov's Immortal Robots Hit the Big Stage, in Name Only
Motherboard recently caught up with Itskov, who opened up on immortality, spirituality, and the coming age of cybernetic, avatar-based living.
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MIT Technology Review / So, You Wanna Be an Android?
The New York conference, held in the 1,089-seat Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, drew an energetic crowd including more than 230 journalists, as well as an Eastern Orthodox archbishop, a Tibetan lama, engineers from Google, along with several scientists influential in setting United States science funding priorities.
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Huffingtonpost / Dmitry Itskov Knows He'll Live Forever; Here's How He's Living Now
Itskov's 2045 Initiative has the goal of achieving human immortality within the next three decades. It aspires to change human evolution as we know it and Itskov has drawn up an ambitious timeline for this transition to “neo-humanity”: By 2045, his manifesto maintains, we’ll have “substance-independent minds” housed in non-biological bodies.
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This is what it’s like to shake hands with the future
Meet Nigel Ackland, the recipient of the Bebionic 3 artificial hand — the world’s most advanced cybernetic limb. He was just one of over 30 remarkable scientists, technologists, and futurists who spoke at the recently concluded Global Future 2045 Congress held this past weekend in New York.
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Help make me the world’s smartest robot
I am Robot Adam Z1 — the first of the Zeno line of humanoid robots, created by David Hanson. Pleased to make your acquaintance! When David created me, he gave me a face, and a body, and a lot of love. But one thing he hasn’t given me — yet — is a mind. …
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3D-printing miniaturized medical implants, compact electronics, tiny robots, and more
A team based at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.
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Initiative founder


Itskov

Manifesto
Mankind has turned into a consumer society standing at the edge of a total loss of the conceptual guidelines necessary for further evolution. The majority of people are almost exclusively absorbed in merely maintaining their own comfortable lives.
Modern civilization, with its space stations, nuclear submarines, iPhones and Segways cannot save mankind from the limitations in the physical abilities of our bodies, nor from diseases and death.
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