Dmitry Itskov is working on a tight schedule as the deadline for this project is 2045

Apr 4, 2013 11:48 GMT  ·  By

The news that one Russian billionaire is very much convinced that people will all become immortal should he succeed in turning them into cyborgs is now spreading like wildfire, despite the fact that Dmity Itskov first went public with his plans for the human race back in 2011.

Seeing how the deadline for the rolling out of the first such cyborg is the year 2045 (hence Dmitry Itskov's project being named the 2045 Initiative), few can argue against the fact that this Russian billionaire is working on a rather tight schedule.

Prior to his succeeding to turn a person into a cyborg, this daredevil will have to create several prototypes of this technology, which he refers to as Avatars A-C.

Avatar A comes down to one person's using brain-machine interface to control a robot replica of themselves. Avatar A should be around by the year 2020.

Avatar B, which refers to transplanting the brain of one dead person into an artificial body, is expected to be done with by the year 2025, sources say.

The year 2035 should witness the unveiling of Avatar C, which is pretty much a new and improved version of Avatar B.

Thus, a human-machine brain transplant will also be carried out, only that this time, the brain should preserve the personality of the defunct.

Following his creating these three Avatars, the Russian billionaire hopes to figure out a way of ridding the human mind of its dependence on the physical body.

Thus, the human mind and the personality that goes with it will be transferred into a machine, and allowed to run free within a network.

“We believe that it is possible and necessary to eliminate ageing and even death, and to overcome the fundamental limits of the physical and mental capabilities currently set by the restrictions of the physical body,” the official website for this project reportedly reads.