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Meet the Google executive who plans to cheat death
Google engineering director and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes we are close to realizing everlasting life and is dead-set on getting us there.
The inventor and noted author believes the key to such a scientific breakthrough is a system of 'bridges' that enable the body to move from strength to strength over time.
The youthful 65-year-old currently takes 150 supplements a day, which he argues if the first bridge.
The idea is to build enough bridges to ensure the body holds out long enough for life-lengthening technology to come into its own.
He has likened the biology of the body to computer software and believes we are all 'out of date'.
Key to the fountain of youth: Ray Kurzweil, futurist and Google engineering director, says the biology of the body is much like computer software and that we are in need of of an upgrade. The hope is to go along enough 'bridges', or stages, to reach the point where life-lengthening technology is at its greatest
Bridge number one: Staying as healthy as possible. Ray Kurzweil currently takes 150 supplements a day to keep his body at its peak
In an interview with Canadian magazine Maclean's, Kurzweil says he hopes the supplements will keep him healthy enough to reach the 'nanotech revolution'.
'I can never say, “I’ve done it, I’ve lived forever,” because it’s never forever,' he said.
'We’re really talking about being on a path that will get us to the next point.
'Bridge one: Stay as healthy as possible with diet and exercise and current medicine.
'The goal is to get to bridge two.
'Bridge two (is) the biotechnology revolution, where we can reprogram biology away from disease.
'And that is not the end-all either.
'Bridge three is to go beyond biology, to the nanotechnology revolution.
'At that point we can have little robots, sometimes called nanobots, that augment your immune system.
'We can create an immune system that recognizes all disease, and if a new disease emerged, it could be reprogrammed to deal with new pathogens.'
Such robots, according to Kurzweil, will help fight diseases, improve health and allow people to remain active for longer.
Genius: Ray Kurzweil is considered a revolutionary in his field and is currently working on Artificial Intelligence
'Biology is a software process,' Kurzweil told Maclean's.
'Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process.
'You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
'We each have a fat insulin receptor gene that says, “Hold on to every calorie”.
'That was a very good idea 10,000 years ago, when you worked all day to get a few calories; there were no refrigerators, so you stored them in your fat cells.
'I would like to tell my fat insulin receptor gene, “You don’t need to do that anymore,”.'
Kurzweil referenced a lab mice experiment at the Joslin Diabetes Center, which managed to turn off the mice's fat insulin receptor gene.
The mice continued to eat, remained slim, did not get diabetes or heart disease and lived 20 per cent longer.
Google is hoping to help expand the human lifespan with its new company Calico, which aims to make improvements in human health and well-being.
Kurzweil has previously predicted that by the late 2020s humans will be able to eat as much junk food as they want because everyone will have a nanobot injected into their bodies that will provide all the necessary nutrients while simultaneously eliminating fat.
Kurzweil is current work towards building smarter computers is being seen as the first step towards developing such technology.
His goal is to improve the natural language processing skills in computers that will allow robots to read, consume and understand human communication.
Kurzweil believes creating intelligent robots is key to human evolution.
Leading the way: Google is hoping to help expand the human lifespan with its new company Calico, which aims to make improvements in human health and well-being.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467514/Ray-Kurzweil-shares-plans-immortality.html
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The emergence and widespread use of affordable android "avatars" controlled by a "brain-computer" interface. Coupled with related technologies “avatars’ will give people a number of new features: ability to work in dangerous environments, perform rescue operations, travel in extreme situations etc.
Avatar components will be used in medicine for the rehabilitation of fully or partially disabled patients giving them prosthetic limbs or recover lost senses.
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Creation of an autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, ‘avatar’, will save people whose body is completely worn out or irreversibly damaged. Any patient with an intact brain will be able to return to a fully functioning bodily life. Such technologies will greatly enlarge the possibility of hybrid bio-electronic devices, thus creating a new IT revolution and will make all kinds of superimpositions of electronic and biological systems possible.
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Creation of a computer model of the brain and human consciousness with the subsequent development of means to transfer individual consciousness onto an artificial carrier. This development will profoundly change the world, it will not only give everyone the possibility of cybernetic immortality but will also create a friendly artificial intelligence, expand human capabilities and provide opportunities for ordinary people to restore or modify their own brain multiple times. The final result at this stage can be a real revolution in the understanding of human nature that will completely change the human and technical prospects for humanity.
2045
This is the time when substance-independent minds will receive new bodies with capacities far exceeding those of ordinary humans. A new era for humanity will arrive! Changes will occur in all spheres of human activity – energy generation, transportation, politics, medicine, psychology, sciences, and so on.
Today it is hard to imagine a future when bodies consisting of nanorobots will become affordable and capable of taking any form. It is also hard to imagine body holograms featuring controlled matter. One thing is clear however: humanity, for the first time in its history, will make a fully managed evolutionary transition and eventually become a new species. Moreover, prerequisites for a large-scale expansion into outer space will be created as well.
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