Ray Kurzweil is obviously not shy when he asserts loud and clear that humanity will achieve immortality by 2030. According to this former Google engineer, by then we will be developing nanorobots capable of repairing our cells and thus avoid aging. The twist is that the person concerned is not at his first prediction which turned out to be correct.
Sometimes it feels like Google’s offices hold secrets too dangerous for humanity. Recently, we notably heard about this engineer who worked on an AI which, according to him, would be endowed with human emotions. Others, who already jumped ship a few years ago, continue to do amazing predictions for the future. This is precisely the case of Ray Kurzweil, a former engineer from the Mountain View firm, now 75 years old.
In his book Humanity 2.0 (The singularity is near from its original title) released in 2005, Ray Kurzweil makes an intriguing prediction. According to him, we would be very close to achieve immortality since according to him, this course will be crossed by 2030. He relies in particular on advances in robotics and genetics to affirm that in a few years, humans will develop nanorobots capable of moving inside our organism.
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These nanorobots could then prevent the appearance of diseases, repair cells to prevent aging or even cancel the harmful effects of certain foods on our body, allowing us to stay healthy and energetic no matter what we eat. Ray Kurzweil does not stop there since he provides AI will pass the Turing test by 2029 or that singularity will be reached by 2045.
We readily concede that all these assertions have a good taste of science fiction. Nevertheless, Ray Kurzweil is far from being at his first attempt. In particular, he was right in declaring that a computer would be able to beat a human at chess by 2000. Or that we would all be equipped with small laptops that we would take everywhere by 2009. So, ready for immortality?
