Immortality
Some scientist is predicting humans will be immortal in about twenty years:
The famed inventor and computer scientist is serious about his health because if it fails him he might not live long enough to see humanity achieve immortality, a seismic development he predicts in his new book is no more than 20 years away.
It’s a blink of an eye in history, but long enough for the 56-year-old Kurzweil to pay close heed to his fitness. He urges others to do the same in “Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever.”
The book is partly a health guide so people can live to benefit from a coming explosion in technology he predicts will make infinite life spans possible.
How?
Kurzweil writes of millions of blood cell-sized robots, which he calls “nanobots,” that will keep us forever young by swarming through the body, repairing bones, muscles, arteries and brain cells. Improvements to our genetic coding will be downloaded via the Internet. We won’t even need a heart.
So, we’ll be immortal until these nanobots revolt like in Terminator 3 and start killing us off. Somehow, a nano-Schwarzenegger isn’t as scary.
February 15th, 2005 at 10:08 am
Ray Kurzweil is probably a million times smarter than me, but dang if he doesn’t sound crazy sometimes.
February 15th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Well I just do not want to be frist.
Of course lets say it cost one million dollars to do that. It would proably be worth it because you could make up the money over time.
February 15th, 2005 at 10:57 am
Ya know, I’m suspicious of any news story that refers to someone as “famous.” One of the first things they taught me when I was writing for my college paper was that if you have to say that someone is famous it means they’re not.
February 15th, 2005 at 11:17 am
Heh. I just noticed the headline for the article:
“Inventor Kurzweil Aiming to Live Forever”
A good sub-head would be:
“So far, so good”