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Kurzweil: Computers Will Enable People To Live Forever

The inventor, author, and futurist predicts that in 15 to 30 years, nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, computers will back up our human memories, and conference calls will be replaced by meetings in virtual resorts.

By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek
November 21, 2006 10:36 AM

In just 15 years, we'll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever. At least that's the prediction of author and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

Kurzweil told a keynote audience at last week's SCO6 supercomputing conference that nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, while computers will back up our human memories and rejuvenate our bodies by keeping us young in appearance and health.


The author of the book The Singularity Is Near, Kurzweil says within a quarter of a century, non-biological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence. He predicts that it will then soar past human ability because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge.

In an interview with InformationWeek, Kurzweil said people and computers will intermix with nanobots, blood cell-sized robots, that will be integrated into everything from our clothing to our bodies and brains. People simply need to live long enough—another 15 to 30 years—to live forever. Think of it as replacing everyone's "human body version 1.0" with nanotechnology that will repair or replace ailing or aging tissue, he says. Parts will become easily replaceable.
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"A $1,000 worth of computation in the 2020s will be 1,000 times more powerful than the human brain," says Kurzweil, adding that in 25 years we'll have multiplied our computational power by a billion. "Fifteen years from now, it'll be a very different world. We'll have cured cancer and heart disease, or at least rendered them to manageable chronic conditions that aren't life threatening. We'll get to the point where we can stop the aging process and stave off death."

Kurzweil isn't writing science fiction. In fact, Microsoft's Bill Gates, a robotics director at Carnegie Mellon University, an MIT professor, and a physicist have all endorsed his book. He has received the National Medal of Technology and the Lemelson-MIT prize. The directors of the National Institute of Health have asked him to speak to their members. Kurzweil says he's simply looking back and measuring the computational progress the human race has made over the last century and then projecting that same line of progress forward into the near future.

Actually, we'll hit a point where human intelligence simply can't keep up with, or even follow, the progress that computers will make, according to Kurzweil. He expects that non-biological intelligence will have access to its own design plans and be able to improve itself rapidly. Computer, or non-biological, intelligence created in the year 2045 will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.

"Supercomputing is behind the progress in all of these areas," Kurzweil says, adding that a prerequisite for non-biological intelligence is to reverse-engineer biology and the human brain. That will give scientists a "toolkit of techniques" to apply when developing intelligent computers. In a written report, he said, "We won't experience 100 years of technological advance in the 21st century; we will witness on the order of 20,000 years of progress, or about 1,000 times greater than what was achieved in the 20th century."

According to Kurzweil, here's what we can expect in the not-so-distant future:


—By the late 2020s, doctors will be sending intelligent bots, or nanobots, into our bloodstreams to keep us healthy, and into our brains to keep us young;
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—In 15 years, human longevity will be greatly extended. By the 2020s, we'll be adding a year of longevity or more for every year that passes;

—In the same timeframe, we'll routinely be in virtual reality environments. Instead of making a cell call, we could "meet" someone in a virtual world and take a walk on a virtual beach and chat. Business meetings and conference calls will be held in calming or inspiring virtual locations;

—When you're walking down the street and see someone you've met before, background information about that person will pop up on your glasses or in the periphery of your vision;

—Instead of spending hours in front of a desktop machine, computers will be more ingrained in our environment. For instance, computer monitors could be replaced by projections onto our retinas or on a virtual screen hovering in the air;

—Scientists will be able to rejuvenate all of someone's body tissues and organs by transforming their skin cells into youthful versions of other cell types;

—Need a little boost? Kurzweil says scientists will be able to regrow our own cells, tissues, and even whole organs, and then introduce them into our bodies, all without surgery. As part of what he calls the "emerging field of rejuvenation medicine," new tissue and organs will be built out of cells that have been made younger;

—Got heart trouble? No problem, says Kurzweil. "We'll be able to create new heart cells from your skin cells and introduce them into your system through the bloodstream. Over time, your heart cells get replaced with these new cells, and the result is a rejuvenated, young heart with your own DNA";

—One trick we'll have to master is staying ahead of the game. Kurzweil warns that terrorists could, obviously, use this same technology against us. For example, they could build and spread a bioengineered biological virus that's highly powerful and stealthy.

According to Kurzweil, we're not that far away from solving a medical problem that has plagued scientists and doctors for quite some time now: the common cold. He notes that while nanotechnology could go into our bloodstreams and knock it out, before we even get to that stage, biotechnology should be able to cure the cold in just 10 years.

Interesting take on things.. guess you might have missed SNL last week when Betty White who by the way happens to be 88 1/2 hosted the show. I didn't see her laying in some bed with a catheter?


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Betty White is the RARE exception. Take a stroll through any nursing home if you want proof. And, btw - senile elderly people don't THINK they're senile, they literaly have brain damage due to the aging process. They too were hoping for a good long life but assumed their brain would continue on untouched by dementia which more often than not is the case. Living 100 years? No thanks.

And just who will be the people who get this pill first ... and then will want to keep it from the masses so that we don't overpopulate an already crowded planet?

Well those who are on the meaner and more selfish end of the scale.

What dictator is going to want to voluntarily give up his "Dictatorship" where he can have others killed on a whim just so some younger person can come in and replace him? NONE!! If it wasn't for death most dictators would keep their "job" as long as they could continue to kill and imprison everyone else.

Ditto the "Corporate Titans". If not for Boards of Directors setting mandatory retirement ages because of the perceived mental and physical decline how many Corporate Titans would ever retire? Ditto all up and down the senior management ranks.

People think Congress doesn't have much turn over now ... just wait until a Strom Thurmand can stay in the Senate until he is 165!!

Remember Federal Judges are appointed "For Life" (US Consitution). If suddenly "Life" means another 65 productive years ther isn't going to be much fresh blood flowing into the Judiciary.

Just some things to think about....

could anyone imagine miley cyrus living forever or obama.

old people that get old and can still function have been blessed. my grandma is 87 and she is crazay.

no pill will do this....



only You and God can make you live past 100:)



raise your vibrations to LOVE status, activate your 12+strand DNA, ascend and live in this body for as long as you want:)


either way your body may go, but that's not who you really are....you are a spiritual being from/of God and will live forever and ever..

:)

eat pure foods- get lots of Sunlight- eat nutrients all natural ones- fish oils- spend time around plants and gardens not cities and radio waves etc- clean up your environment your AIR your Water- Structure your water before you drink it and use reverse osmosis on it- sun charge your water- stay away from modern-medicines aka Pills.. And last but NOT least- Live inside of a purely structured Pyramid. It OFFS disease and other negatives.... and be Positive your whole life...


Do all those and i bet you live past 200.... TPTW make it damn near impossible though....

I can only imagine how much pain there is in living another 40 years.

^ this too

I AM 53, wait until you hit fifty, then see what you have to say about it

Fuckin' A. Life only gets more and more exhaustive. Why prolong it unnecessarily?

i could see using it for space exploration. but we're just kinda sittin around with our thumbs in our asses.

that doesnt stop someone from killing you or a piano falling on your head.

You know how shitty the general situation is when an ass is still the best place to put them. Space exploration? The novelty will wear off after a few decades...

No shit! Who wants to live longer? I guess they will be popular in Washington!

Depends on the material the pyramid is made of. Can it withhold the weight of a piano?

Such utter bullshit. How is this supposed "pill" going to prevent against getting other diseases, viruses, HIV, Hep C, cancer, and what about accidents also. It's a pipe dream, as in a crack pipe dream. Who the fuck would want to live that long in this nazi-illuminati lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, terrible world anyway, even if it did work, which it won't. You cannot trust pharmaceuticals as far as you can throw them. They cure nothing and accomplish NOTHING, other than making scumbag con-men rich, and expediting your death via toxic chemicals.

You did not inherit it, you are going to be fine and healthy.

Don't ask me how I know this, I can't explain it.

all the people that think lust for god and a positive tude make you live longer. they just cant get enuff of the material realm.

BWHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA

Mandatory for more taxes.

God? We're born from shit, raised from shit and will perish in shit. God is just sitting on his ceramic throne throwing some more shit at us. If he gave a fuck life would be either unbearable or pleasing and not just borderline tolerable.

lol

so i take it your staying


:)

You really think the New World Order's going to let this happen?



It goes against their whole plan of culling the herd.

Made me lol for real :)

Fuck this shit.

We don't need more old people.

I watched 2 people I love die of old age when they were past the age of 100.
They were horrible, painful deaths as thier organs slowly failed and shut down.
If I get past 100 I wanna die fast...not like my relations did.

This is purely longev tech... it's sole purpose is extension.
You're supposed to combine it with rejuve tech... the point being, soon there won't be any old people, old age will be like all those other diseases we've eradicated, it will be relegated to the history books.

And for all those who don't want to go down this route... good, more stuff for the rest of us.

anyone else here take a daily dose of resveratrol?

I take about 6 after work.