The recipe for immortality exists, and robots are a fundamental ingredient. It is the science fiction dream of a Russian entrepreneur, Dmitry Itskov, who has already put on paper the roadmap that will lead us, here in 2045, to lose our clumsy body of flesh and blood to become artificial immortal intelligences capable of manifesting us through holograms.
If you are wondering if the guy in question is a fool with a wallet too bloated, the answer is no. Dmitry Itskov is the co-founder of New Media Stars, a Russian media company that in the last fifteen years has allowed him to climb the peak of success by becoming a 32-year-old millionaire influential enough to afford to invest mountains of money in projects that many others would liquidate as wasteful shots in the dark.
Before evaluating how effective this possibility Itskov has reached its goal, let's look at its hypothetical roadmap.
Year 2020:
These cyborgs of central nervous system will be perfected, they will have our appearance and we will be able to control them from a distance, a bit like the surrogates of The World of Replicants, it will be like taking command of the senses of a body that moves miles away from our. Itskov is said to be sure that the first developments of this technology will already be visible within the next three years.
Year 2025:
The biological body has made its time, it is a cumbersome appendix that there is still a life of suffering, decay and incipient baldness, so it is worth isolating the brain alone, extracting it from the rest of the body together with a little spine and transplanting everything in an artificial life support (always a cyborg with human features, if possible), in which it could continue to work well beyond the normal life expectancy of the biological individual.
Year 2030-35
It is the most crucial step of the four, the one that marks the abandonment of every biological waste: to create a digital replica of your brain and upload it to a computer, which is a bit like what Richard K. Morgan had imagined in his novel Bay City . Before you can combine those eyebrows in your best sarcastic expression, feel here: a researcher named Theodore Berger has succeeded in replacing the mouse hippocampus with a chip and demonstrating that the mice to which this chip is implanted are able to have a memory without the need of the traditional biological support in charge of that function.
Year 2045
The final goal chosen by Itskov consists in the elimination of any kind of physicality, allowing the individual to survive solely in the digital dimension, without the need for an artificial body, and to manifest itself as necessary through a hologram that depicts the now disappeared features biological.
