Kurzweil predicts immortality in 15 years
Immortality has not yet become a reality, but rapidly developing technologies may bring its offensive closer. So, at least, said Ray Kurzweil, technical director of Google, at the Global Future 2045 World Congress (a project of Russian businessman Dmitry Itskov).
Considering biology as software and reprogramming cells for the treatment of diseases and other ailments, mankind has already made great strides in medicine, Kurzweil said.
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“The rapid development of relevant technologies will occur in the next 10 or 20 years, probably in 15 years we will reach the inflection point, where scientific progress will add us more years than we will lose from aging,” says Ray. "In 10 or 20 years, great changes in health and medicine will come."
For example, using 3D bioprinter, which can print human tissue, and stem cells, which are used as material for printing, researchers will be able to grow real human organs.
“There are already fantastic treatments for heart disease, cancer and other neurological diseases based on the idea of reprogramming,” says Kurzweil. “These are all examples of the presentation of biology as software ... These technologies will become 1000 times more powerful in 10 years. And a million times in 20 ".
Achieving immortality is one of the main goals of the 65-year-old scientist. He says he takes up to 250 pills a day and half a dozen intravenous injections every week to keep his body and health in good shape, hoping to live forever.
Andzkov himself does not count on human immortality. His plan is to replace human bodies with non-biological carriers into which the human brain will be implanted. By 2020, robots must be driven by the power of thought. By 2025 - the ability to move the brain to an artificial repository while maintaining its vital functions. By 2035 - it is possible to place all the information from the brain in a computer carrier, so that the robots do not have to carry the contents of the skull box with them. By 2045 - the achievement of technological nirvana, when virtualized minds will control the holographic body.
Considering biology as software and reprogramming cells for the treatment of diseases and other ailments, mankind has already made great strides in medicine, Kurzweil said.
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“The rapid development of relevant technologies will occur in the next 10 or 20 years, probably in 15 years we will reach the inflection point, where scientific progress will add us more years than we will lose from aging,” says Ray. "In 10 or 20 years, great changes in health and medicine will come."
For example, using 3D bioprinter, which can print human tissue, and stem cells, which are used as material for printing, researchers will be able to grow real human organs.
“There are already fantastic treatments for heart disease, cancer and other neurological diseases based on the idea of reprogramming,” says Kurzweil. “These are all examples of the presentation of biology as software ... These technologies will become 1000 times more powerful in 10 years. And a million times in 20 ".
Achieving immortality is one of the main goals of the 65-year-old scientist. He says he takes up to 250 pills a day and half a dozen intravenous injections every week to keep his body and health in good shape, hoping to live forever.
Andzkov himself does not count on human immortality. His plan is to replace human bodies with non-biological carriers into which the human brain will be implanted. By 2020, robots must be driven by the power of thought. By 2025 - the ability to move the brain to an artificial repository while maintaining its vital functions. By 2035 - it is possible to place all the information from the brain in a computer carrier, so that the robots do not have to carry the contents of the skull box with them. By 2045 - the achievement of technological nirvana, when virtualized minds will control the holographic body.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/183716/
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