June 18, 2013 at 14:15Kurzweil predicts immortality in 15 years
Immortality has not yet become a reality, but rapidly developing technologies can bring it closer. So, at least, Ray Kurzweil, CTO of Google, said 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, said Kurzweil.
“The rapid development of appropriate technologies will happen in the next 10 or 20 years, probably in 15 years we will reach a point of inflection, where scientific progress will add more years to us than we will lose from aging,” says Ray. “In 10 or 20 years, grandiose changes will come in healthcare and medicine.”
For example, using 3D bioprinters that can print human tissue, and stem cells that are used as printing material, researchers can grow real human organs.
“There are already fantastic treatments for heart disease, cancer, and other neurological diseases based on the idea of reprogramming,” Kurzweil says. “These are all examples of representing biology as software ... These technologies will become 1000 times more powerful in 10 years. And a million times through 20 ".
Achieving immortality is one of the main goals of the 65-year-old scientist. He says he takes up to 250 tablets per day and half a dozen intravenous injections every week to maintain his health and body in good shape, hoping to live forever.
Itskov 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 controlled by the power of thought should appear. 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 medium, so that the robots do not have to carry the contents of the cranium with them. By 2045 - the achievement of technological nirvana, when virtualized minds will control holographic bodies.
Considering biology as software and reprogramming cells for the treatment of diseases and other ailments, mankind has already made great strides in medicine, said Kurzweil.
“The rapid development of appropriate technologies will happen in the next 10 or 20 years, probably in 15 years we will reach a point of inflection, where scientific progress will add more years to us than we will lose from aging,” says Ray. “In 10 or 20 years, grandiose changes will come in healthcare and medicine.”
For example, using 3D bioprinters that can print human tissue, and stem cells that are used as printing material, researchers can grow real human organs.
“There are already fantastic treatments for heart disease, cancer, and other neurological diseases based on the idea of reprogramming,” Kurzweil says. “These are all examples of representing biology as software ... These technologies will become 1000 times more powerful in 10 years. And a million times through 20 ".
Achieving immortality is one of the main goals of the 65-year-old scientist. He says he takes up to 250 tablets per day and half a dozen intravenous injections every week to maintain his health and body in good shape, hoping to live forever.
Itskov 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 controlled by the power of thought should appear. 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 medium, so that the robots do not have to carry the contents of the cranium with them. By 2045 - the achievement of technological nirvana, when virtualized minds will control holographic bodies.