Posted on 04/20/2016 5:12:57 PM PDT by John W
Ray Kurzweil, Google's chief futurist, laid out what he thinks the next few decades will look like in an interview with Playboy.
Kurzweil is one of the biggest believers in The Singularity, the moment when humans — with the aid of technology —will supposedly live forever.
He's chosen the year 2045 because, according to his calculations, "The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will reach a level that’s a billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today."
But even before 2045, Kurzweil thinks we could begin the deathless process.
"I believe we will reach a point around 2029 when medical technologies will add one additional year every year to your life expectancy," he told Playboy. "By that I don’t mean life expectancy based on your birthdate, but rather your remaining life expectancy."
A lot will have to happen in the next 30 years to make that a reality, but Kurzweil isn't fazed: He predicts that nano machines capable of taking over for our immune system (to fix problems like cancerous cells and clogged arteries) and connecting our brains to the cloud will be available by then.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Who in their right mind would want to “live forever” when you’d have to put up with these bull**** presidential campaigns every two years?
I am looking forward to living forever with Christ.
Not impressed with living ‘forever’ in the current world or the future world the way things are going.
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” - as recorded in Genesis 11.
If I can live forever, I’d take it.
A blind and arrogant Marxist atheist who does not understand man’s sinful nature and its inevitable effect on his life.....no man is going to reverse God’s judgment on Adam and his kin - until the resurrection and Kingdom come.......
Come, Lord Jesus......
As long as no people are harvested for parts. If they can beat hunger and death by natural causes we might actually get off this rock. Unless virtual reality becomes the new opiate and everyone drops out of reality.
Freegards
Amen.
Preach it, brother!
I think one should consider the conundrum, brought to my attention by Douglas Hofstadter in THE MIND’S I, of reduplicated consciousness.
He cited the Star Trek transporter scenario, which we all seemed to accept as making sense, as presented. He noted that the mode of operation was essentially reduplication, since your entire body was decorporialized, or whatever, and then recorporialized elsewhere.
This process suggested to him that a malfunction might occur, wherein the transport process would seem to succeed, but the original body might remain intact. In this case, he suggests, that the ship’s computer might announce to the straggler, “This isn’t you, you have been transported. Stand by for discorporation.” I think this is enough to present the Star Trek transporter process as a paradox.
But considering that, what of our own sense of continuity? I can attest that as a youth of 10 or so, I wondered about my future self, and have in fact lived past the point of anything I ever contemplated. So what am I?
Kurzweil has been peddling the same crap for about two decades now. When preacher sets a date for the end of the world that doesn’t happen, their next prediction rightly gets ridiculed. When a ‘futurist’ does it, they write another book and cash another royalty check.
Technology has and will change the world in major ways. But immortality and uploading our consciousness into robots is science fiction.
“’Thus gods are made and whoso makes them otherwise shall die’ And all the city praised him ... Then he died.”
-Rudyard Kipling
I hope this tech doesn’t happen till well after Soros is dead.
Same.
Wouldn’t it suck if you just found out you would “live forever” and then you get run over by a bus?
Futurist Robert Anton Wilson was very interested in this topic. He wrote pretty frequently about how we were just on the edge of cracking this problem, and that people would be living to 200 and beyond any day now.
He died in 2007.
"During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. "
We already live forever.
Just not here.
What a great book! Godel, Escher and Bach was the eye-opener for me.
Do you remember metamagical themes, back when Scientific American was a credible publication?
Coming up:
5000 year mortgages
4000 year student loans
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