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"DMITRY ITSKOV is a Russian entrepreneur, billionaire and the founder of New Media Stars, a web-based media company. Itskov is best known for being the founder of the 2045 Initiative, which aims to achieve cybernetic immortality by the year 2045." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Itskov View in LinkedIn

THE NATURAL LIMITS. “The signal shift in the development of the digital culture is the loss of physical laws as the conclusive arbiter of action. Physical and natural laws have generally governed what was possible, and so provided limits to everything from politics to property. Hence the notion of a "reality check." https://lnkd.in/dJTgZH3 View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL FUTURE. "The conference, which is the brainchild of Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov, fell somewhere between hardcore science and science fiction. It featured a diverse cast of speakers, from scientific luminaries like Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis and Marvin Minsky, to Swamis and other spiritual leaders." (2013, Global Future 2045 Conference). http://www.livescience.com/37499-immortality-by-2045-conference.html View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a wide-ranging and interesting article by professor Reto Burri, a German ecologist, about evolution that covers the links between natural selection, demography and genomics, with an emphasis on birds; this covers a sizable chunk of the heart of evolution. https://lnkd.in/d6894Jh View in LinkedIn

TEN YEARS. "A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years." (Professor Henry Markram). https://lnkd.in/dQEQUkh View in LinkedIn