| 2045.com A strange ghost wanders lonely in Europe. It drifts about the entire technologically and spiritually advanced world. By the looks of it, all that Hollywood fantasy stuff -- Batman, Robocop, The Terminator, Spider-man, the X-men, Iron Man, Bicentennial Man, The Matrix, The Surrogates, Avatar -- shows which way the wind blows. The ghost looming at the semantic and technological horizon has been recently recognized by the experts. It is the ghost of the transhuman immort-revolution, a revolution which will make man an invulnerable immortal overman, almost a God-man. Yet it is just a ghost. But to whom, if not us Russians, is the process of making ghosts real so painfully familiar?! We are a nation of great dreamers. We are genetically programmed not to care about delicious food, nice cars, or houses with mowed lawns. Our Russian Icarus, Furvin Kryakutnoy, strove for the sky, and despite all the prohibitions jumped from towers on his homemade wings. Perhaps it was not for nothing. We gave the world great dreamers and cosmists: Fedorov, Berdyaev, Soloviev, Roerich, Tsiolkovsky, Vernadsky. We have the power to incarnate dreams. A new dream is standing on the horizon. It is going to bring us fantastic future -- not at the expense of political upheaval, but through peaceful and rapid development of high technology. This incredible ghost of tomorrow, a ghost that, once materialized, will change once and for all the course of human evolution and mark the end of the old ... |
