Research on genetics, nanotechnology and robotics are at full speed and are being updated more and more. Because of them, Ray Kurzweil, a former engineer at Google, says that humans will be immortal in just 8 years. It's worth remembering that Kurzweil is famous for getting predictions right.
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As much as we live in a safe place and our health is the best there is, we are sure that someday we will die.
However, according to a Google engineer, Ray Kurzweil, this will soon change and death will no longer be such a certainty. The engineer is known for making accurate predictions about the future of technology.
For Ray Kurzweil, from here to 2031, research on nanotechnology, biology and robotics will advance as much that death will no longer be a certainty, as several diseases that come with old age will simply not exist more.
How does he believe this will happen?
For Kurzweil, due to advances in technology, there will be tiny robots capable of repairing damaged tissue cells as a result of old age. With the existence of these robots, many concerns would automatically cease to exist among humans, after all, diseases like cancer would no longer exist.
Although Kurzweil's possible predictions were received with much enthusiasm, skepticism still runs high among people when it comes to immortality, after all, it is unlikely that all the diseases in the world will cease to exist in just 8 years.
Who is Ray Kurzweil?
Kurzweil had been making predictions about technology advances since before he started working at Google on machine learning in 2012. In total, the researcher has already made 147 predictions, with 86% of them being correct.
As late as 1990, Kurzweil's predictions proved to be correct. The researcher had predicted, for example, that the best chess player in the world would lose to a computer in 2000. In this case, Kurzweil only missed the year of the event, because, in 1997, Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov.
Another famous prediction by the researcher was that by 2023 there would be notebooks costing just $1,000 with a storage capacity greater than even the human brain.
For Ray Kurzweil, machines will not dominate humanity, they will only make us better in all aspects.
