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While many tech moguls dream of changing the way we live with new smart devices or social media apps, one Russian internet millionaire is trying to change nothing less than our destiny, by making it possible to upload a human brain to a computer, reports Tristan Quinn. "Within the next 30 years," promises Dmitry Itskov, "I am going to make sure that we can all live forever."
It sounds preposterous, but there is no doubting the seriousness of this softly spoken 35-year-old, who says he left the business world to devote himself to something more useful to humanity. "I'm 100% confident it will happen. Otherwise I wouldn't have started it," he says. It is a breathtaking ambition, but could it actually be done? Itskov doesn't have too much time to find out.
"If there is no immortality technology, I'll be dead in the next 35 years," he laments. Death is inevitable - currently at least - because as we get older the cells that make up our bodies lose their ability to repair themselves, making us vulnerable to cardiovascular disease and other age-related conditions that kill about two-thirds of us.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35786771
Horizon: The Immortalist, produced and directed by Tristan Quinn, will be shown on BBC 2 at 20:00 on Wednesday 16 March 2016 - viewers in the UK can catch up later on the BBC iPlayer
Dmitry Itskov, Founder of 2045 Initiative
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 17 2016, @01:12AM
The immortality you seek will be given to those that have accepted Christ and lived accordingly.
Ah, a faith + works or faith = works individual. May I point you to the book of Corinth where members of the church were wiped out due to sins including getting hammered during Passover. Also notice how repentance is not mentioned once in the book of John, a book targeted towards nonbelievers.
Ask yourself this: how do you know you've lived accordingly? What level of holiness is enough? Will you ever know if you 'did it?'
2 Timothy 12:
For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
Faith alone, in Christ alone.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday March 24 2016, @10:13PM
"8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
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"14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." James 2:14-26 King James Version (KJV)
I am not a Works = Faith or Faith = Works Christian. I am a Faith + Works = Salvation kind of Christian. We can never be perfect, until Christ's Second Coming, where we will be changed into our Perfect Selves as God intended in the first place. I can't attain salvation by doing Anything, I can only attain Salvation through Faith, but Without Works, there is No Faith.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"