What is most encouraging to me about this is how well it seems to be marketed. The person pushing it seems to be a wealthy (not sure if billionaire but certainly rich) person with a background in media.
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What is most encouraging to me about this is how well it seems to be marketed.
Thus the world will even closer associate futurism or immortality with crackpots and fiction.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/07/human-immortality-could-be-possible-by-2045-say-russian-scientists.html
The nice thing about Russians (I'm from that neighborhood originally) is that they are absolutely crazy and will try just about anything. They also probably have/had second-best science culture behind US (though they suffered significant brain drain as huge numbers of educated Jews left in the last 25 years). They have less regulation and quite a few rich people with ideas. Seems like a worthwhile group to keep in touch with.