Millionaire in the machine
A non-finance related piece I wrote for Upgrade on one business tycoon’s quest for immortality through new technology.
Dmitry Itskov dreams of immortality.
It’s a dream that the Russian multimillionaire is hoping to engineer into reality in a relatively short 32 years with his creation of the “2045 Initiative” – a project devoted to the kind of “life extension technologies” that currently populate science fiction.
Mr Itskov’s second attempt at promoting those technologies to a wider audience is the “Global Future 2045 International Congress,” held in New York over two days in June, and a follow-up to a similar gathering that took place in Moscow last year.