想象力是将不可能变为可能的源头 Trying to make the impossible possible starts in the imagination.
我儿时最大的梦想是成为一名宇航员 My biggest dream when I grew up was to be a cosmonaut -
飞到外太空 探索新行星 to fly into outer space and to explore new planets.
这个梦想一直伴随着我 That sort of dream has always been with me.
有一本很有趣的书 There was an interesting book
讲的是男主人公是吃了长生不老药 and the main hero took some immortality pill,
最终他沿着轨道绕地球飞行 and he ended up flying on the orbit of Earth.
我记得我曾问过自己 I remember myself questioning
如果我能永生 我会做些什么 what I was going to do if I'm immortal.
成年后 When he grew up,
德米特里·伊茨科夫成了一名互联网大亨 Dmitry Itskov became an internet mogul.
他现在将自己资产的一部分 He says he now spends part of his fortune
投入研发永生项目 trying to bring about immortality.
当然 不是所有东西现在都能公布 Not everything can be disclosed at the moment but, yes,
德米特里·伊茨科夫 2045计划 创始人
我在用自己的钱资助这个科研项目 I have been funding this science with my own money.
这需要数百万美元的投入 We are talking about millions of dollars.
德米特里是越来越多的超级富豪之一 Dmitry is one of a growing number of the mega-rich
他们为自己的科研项目提供资金支持 who are funding their own scientific projects.
他着迷于未来世界的样子 He is fascinated by signs of a coming world.
日本大阪 Osaka, Japan -
科技正在改变生存和死亡 where technology is changing what it is to be alive...
二者的定义 and what it is to die.
是科幻小说变为现实的地方 Where science fiction is being made real.
这位正乘电梯下降的科学家 The descending scientist
是仿真机器人制造者 is a builder of robots that look like us...
他有着看似�茠k实现的想法 and a thinker of seemingly impossible thoughts.
有朝一日
我们可能会选择仿真机器人而非人类作为配偶
石黑浩教授参加了德米特里2013年的会议 Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro went to Dmitry's conference in 2013.
他的夙愿是将机器人 His ambition is to make his machines
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