“Russia 2045” Has Never Been a Project Personally Initiated by Putin
Dear like-minded friends, On October 1st the New York Times published an article with a picture from a protest in Moscow that includes a poster of Vladimir Putin depicted with piercing green eyes and a...
View ArticleLetter of transmittal for project applications regarding the creation of a...
There is currently dynamic growth in the research being done on maintaining brain function and creating technologies that prevent neurodegenerative processes in the brain, technologies that treat...
View ArticleCover Letter for the Humanoid BCI-controlled Robot Proposal
At the moment, there is an avalanche of growth in technologies used to create humanoid robots. In part it is due to the rapid development in microelectronics, sensor systems, new materials and...
View ArticleThe Problem of Bioprosthesis Control and Possible Solutions
T. Shcukin, Social Movement Russia 2045 Published in collected works of the Nonlinear Dynamics in Cognitive Research 2011 conference, p. 238. In February 2011, a number of Russian researchers...
View ArticleInternational Conference “Global Future – 2045” (GF 2045)
“Russia 2045,” a global social initiative based in Moscow, together with the Eurasian Center for Mega-History and Systematic Prognosis, under the aegis of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the...
View Article"Global Future 2045" Congress Resolution Was Considered
On the February 20, 2012 After three days of seminars and presentations, Congress "Global Future 2045" closed with the round table discussion devoted to formulating concepts, forming future strategy...
View ArticleWired.com: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever
Wired.com: The Pentagon’s new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who’d act as “surrogates” for their...
View ArticleRay Kurzweil about GF2045 and 'Avatar'
Famous scientist, inventor, author of Singularity theory Ray Kurzweil about the Global Future 2045 Congress and the "Avatar" project.
View ArticleVideo presentation of the 2045 initiative’s vision for a strategy for further...
The world is on the verge of global change. The rate of globally significant events, and that of discoveries and crises, is growing exponentially. We are facing the choice: To fall into a new Dark Age...
View ArticleDailyMail.co.UK: Swarms of cyborg insect drones are the future of military...
The kinds of drones making the headlines daily are the heavily armed CIA and U.S. Army vehicles which routinely strike targets in Pakistan - killing terrorists and innocents alike. But the real...
View ArticleBigThink: Could We Transport Our Consciousness Into Robots?
Question: Is consciousness imprinted in the brain, and will it be possible to transfer that via teleportation? (Submitted by Robin de Roover)Michio Kaku: Robin, you ask yet another very embarrassing...
View Articleengadget: Google simulates the human brain with 1000 machines, 16000 cores...
Don't tell Google, but its latest X lab project is something performed by the great internet public every day. For free. Mountain View's secret lab stitched together 1,000 computers totaling 16,000...
View ArticleScientific American: What Happens to Consciousness When We Die
Where is the experience of red in your brain? The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 3. A posse of presenters argued that the...
View ArticleThe Economist: The future of mind control
IN AN attempt to treat depression, neuroscientists once carried out a simple experiment. Using electrodes, they stimulated the brains of women in ways that caused pleasurable feelings. The subjects...
View ArticleGIZMODO: Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing
This may seem like something out of a science fiction movie: researchers have designed microparticles that can be injected directly into the bloodstream to quickly oxygenate your body, even if you...
View ArticleDailyMail.co.UK: Robot with a 'textured hand' can detect more than 100...
Researchers have developed a robot finger that is more sensitive to touch than the human hand. The BioTac sensor was able to identify a randomly selected material 95 per cent of the time, which is a...
View ArticleXconomy: “Engineering is For Helping People”: Xconomist of the Week Yoky...
We had an amazing lineup of speakers at our first-ever forum on the future of robotics at SRI International in Menlo Park back in May. But I was especially excited to have the opportunity to do an...
View ArticleNature: Rabbits kept alive by oxygen injections
Rabbits with blocked windpipes have been kept alive for up to 15 minutes without a single breath, after researchers injected oxygen-filled microparticles into the animals' blood. Oxygenating the blood...
View ArticleWBEZ91.5: I, not robot: A critic speaks out (while she still can)
When I heard that robots were writing sports stories, I was barely surprised: So many stories about competitive sports are a list of names and numbers (“Boston beat the White Sox 4-2, with pitcher...
View ArticleU.S. Army Awards $13.9M Contract to ReconRobotics
ReconRobotics has recently declared that it has received a $13.9 M worth contract for 1,000 of its miniature, throwable, mobile robots from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The Indefinite...
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