The great inventions of mankind that have come from ancient Asian civilizations, as symbols of Eternity and Wisdom, until today, are in use all over the world and are remarkable examples of creativity, as well as advances in science and technology.I want to list some iconic discoveries.Ancient China: six Great Inventions: the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, woodblock printing, mechanical clocks, silk. The list could be expanded to add many more great Chinese inventions, such as iron smelting, acupuncture, porcelain, rocket, etc.Ancient Korea: heated greenhouse, underfloor heating, movable metal type printing.Ancient India: Chaturanga (the precursor of chess), Ayurveda, Ancient flush toilet systems.All of these great discoveries are manifestations of the Confucius quote “Acquire new knowledge thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”In the 19th century, German philosopher Karl Marx commented on the importance of these great inventions, saying, “Gunpowder, the compass, and the printing press were the three great inventions which ushered in bourgeois society. Gunpowder blew up the knightly class, the compass discovered the world market and found the colonies, and the printing press was the instrument of Protestantism and the regeneration of science in general; the most powerful lever for creating the intellectual prerequisites.”The Silk Road as an ancient network of trade routes was a revolutionary technological megaproject initiated by Chinese intellectuals and had a long-lasting effect on the development and flourishing of Asian civilizations, the Middle East, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and North Africa. The flow of goods, technological innovations, and cultural achievements from China to other territories was based on equal partnership rather than slavery, was driven by trade rather than military invasions, brought to the territories prosperity and not poverty, and resulted in establishing political and economic relations between various civilizations.In addition to economic trade, the ancient Silk Road was a route for cultural trade among the civilizations along with its network for many centuries. I can give two examples of how the involvement of Armenian merchants in ancient Silk Road trade with China enriched the Armenian language with new words.The first word is “չնաշխարհիկ” = chnashkarik (of divine beauty), and means “the Chinese world” (Չինաց աշխարհ). And the second word is “ճենապակի” = chenapaki (porcelain), and means “the Chinese glass.”These 2 words were generated during the Silk Road trade, and are still in use in the Armenian language today.Another interesting finding is the effect that the Silk Road had on genetics.An article in Science Magazine[1] titled “A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History” in the “Supplementary Materials” section[2] noted that “The Northern Han Chinese (but not the Southern Chinese Han) show evidence of a small admixture event (6%), between an East-Asian Tujia-like group and, interestingly, a group similar to present-day populations from Armenia and Turkey”, which I think is most likely a result of the activity of Armenian merchants along the Silk Road. The study was prepared by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig /Germany/, Genetics Institute-University College London /UK/, Oxford University /UK/, and University of Edinburgh /UK/.I want to summarize the period of the Ancient Silk Road as “Creating Visions of Another World.”The Belt and Road initiative of the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the most ambitious infrastructure project the modern world has ever known and is a logical continuation of the ancient Silk Road trade route. In the era of information technologies, robotics, and artificial intelligence systems, the 4th Industrial Revolution has already started and will likely result in humans losing many of their mechanical duties and tasks. In the near future, robots will take our jobs, especially in fields such as driving, taxi, and delivery services, customer service and office assistants, warehouse workers, assembly line manufacturing, retail and customer interaction jobs and more. To be competitive in this battle with robots, we need to have well educated young citizens with creative thinking abilities, and most importantly – with solid cultural background. It is the only way that tomorrow’s young generation can win the race with robots. And I’m accenting the influence and outcomes of Culture and Education in the digital era and will speak about “Digital Culture” or “Culture 2.0” as a tool to enhance mutual understanding and trust of member nations.The New Silk Road “Economic Belt” with 3 tangible drivers: energy, security, and markets; and the New Silk Road “Cultural Belt” with 3intangible drivers: Culture, Science and Education, will serve the goals of achieving a stable, secure connectivity and trusting cooperation among multiple countries spread across the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.Huge amounts of information will be circulated between the participating parties, and a wide range of everyday STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) tasks will be executed, such as space programs calculations, water areas observations, exploration of minerals and mines, management of automated markets, bridging science with society, leadership in climate change - to prevent catastrophic global warming. “Culture 2.0” applications also will generate huge flow of data and should be analyzed appropriately.To manage such Big Data flow, high performing computational systems should be exploited on some of the Belt and Road nodes.Supercomputers: China’s Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer (developed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering ＆ Technology), installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, and Tianhe-2A (Milky Way-2A), deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, have been holding the number 3 and 4 positions on the TOP500 list for two years[3].In some nodes of the Belt and Road initiative installation of such supercomputers will not only solve the above-listed tasks but will also initiate and fulfill many more STM and Culture 2.0 endeavors.The Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia could act as one such node. It’s worth mentioning that the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences had already signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation.Such supercomputing infrastructure will also serve the Culture 2.0 needs as well.“Culture 2.0” focuses on technologies in today’s culture in the broadest sense: from digital and virtual technologies to social practices, technologies for public spaces’ arrangement, development of local communities as well as promotion of inclusive and educational cultural projects, from the open-access approach to information that everyone has the ability to use and share, to the free/open-source software solutions, and in general, as professor Lawrence Lessig has called a shift from a “Read Only” (R/O) to a “Read/Write” (R/W) culture. “Read Only” culture is characterized by a sharp distinction between producers and consumers and is based on the lecture model of distribution. In contrast, in a “Read/Write” culture the distinction between producers and consumers breaks down, and the culture becomes more democratic and open. Such a cultural-educational-scientific ecosystem, I will call it Culture 2.0 and will describe some of its components.