Mind uploaded into "hologram body" (whatever that is) by 2045?
"Hologram-like avatar" seems like an attempt to dumb down the concept of virtual reality embodiment for the average person. Note that in Star Trek the term "hologram" is abused in a similar manner.
Claiming this will be a saleable service?
I don't see how that's any different than claiming that prosthetic arms will be a saleable service, for example.
Brain transplants within 13 years?
Over-optimism, to be sure.
Am I really the only person in this thread who thinks this reeks of fraud?
What is the specific fraudulent business plan that this smells of?
Am I really the only person in this thread who thinks this reeks of fraud?
What is the specific fraudulent business plan that this smells of?
It's not clear to me that that's a sensible question to respond with. It's certainly not conventionally the case that one is expected to be able to describe a precise fraudulent business plan when one's inbuilt other-people-evaluator flags a proposition as being dodgy as hell. Positing that as being a reasonable expectation strikes me as setting other people up for exploitation.
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.