Will Humans Achieve Immortality By 2045?

So says Ray Kurzweil, chief proponent of Singularity is Near –“an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today—the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity.”

From Time’s Lev Grossman

Here's what the exponential curves told him. We will successfully reverse-engineer the human brain by the mid-2020s. By the end of that decade, computers will be capable of human-level intelligence. Kurzweil puts the date of the Singularity — never say he's not conservative — at 2045.

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Ray Kurzweil’s betting on the exponential growth of human ingenuity which converts technology into our life preserver.