A group of scientists, business leaders and public figures from around the world met this past weekend to discuss evolution, but this wasn't the same old discussion about where we came from, but about where we can go from here, and how technology could make us immortal by 2035.

The 2045 Initiative was started in 2011 by Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov, with the goal of engineering the future of human evolution. The plan is to first create life-like robotic copies of our bodies in the next 2 to 7 years, which we would control and interact with the world through, similar to the movie Surrogates. From there, in roughly 5-to-10-year steps, the initiative would work towards transplanting our brains into robot bodies by 2025, and then by 2035, do away with the flesh entirely by allowing us to transfer our personality into a robot 'avatar'. The final step in the plan, scheduled for 2045, would be to divorce ourselves completely from the body, and just have our robotic minds controlling holograms to interact with the world.

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