"Imagine this ... a digital copy of your brain in a different life form that could live for hundreds of years and be replaced." Dmitry Itskov, a Russian billionaire, has start working on his 2045 project - "a venture that seeks to replace flesh-and-blood bodies with robotic avatars, each one uploaded with the contents of a human brain." The goal of this project is to extend human lives by hundreds or thousands of years, or maybe forever. 

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Lots of people said he is insane. "I hear that often," he said, "there are quotes from people like Arthur C. Clarke and Gandhi saying that when people come up with new ideas they're called 'nuts.' Then everybody starts believing in the idea and nobody can remember a time when it seemed strange."

Dmitry Itskov has already spent over three million dollars on this project.

"We could have the first phase-that will enable people to operate a nonbiological body-in the next seven years. And he believes that the concept can be proved viable in the next three years. He is talking about an artificial body with sensations-the sensation that you would be walking in the body.The next phase (Avatar B) is brain transplantation. Instead of your dying, neurosurgeons isolate the brain and some of the spinal chord, put it in a life support system, and that is inserted into the android developed in Avatar A. The timetable: 2020-25.In the next phase (Avatar C), you make the brain non-biological by uploading it into a computer. The timetable: 2030-35." Said Dmirty Itskov.