be able to upload our thoughts? i think we re already there because our thinking is augmented with our technology. we now wear this kind of on our bodies. and this is intelligent. you can translate languages. you can access all of human knowledge. it is an indirect connection from our brain to the cloud. 100 years from now people will think it was amazing when we went throughout the day without backing up our mind file. if our thinking is partly biological and partly nonbiological, the nonbiological part is expanding exponentially. it s doubling in power every year. according to my calculations, by 2045, we will multiply our intelligence a billionfold. the nonbiological part is going to dominate. that s amazing. that s such a profound transformation that we borrowed this metaphor from physics. that s the singularity. right. kurzweil s calculations predict the singularity will hit in 2045, a time when man and machine will be so connected that we will be able to transcend the
but according to kurzweil there will soon be a way to circumvent death. there s some salmon. and the key to mortality lies in technology. medicine has undergone a grand transformation enabled by the genome project to where it is now an information technology. information technology grows exponentially. and that s quite radical. this is several billion times more powerful than the computers i used when i was an undergraduate. this amount of computation will be the size of a blood cell in the 2030s. it will be a billion times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller in 25 years. that s the radical implication. so there will be little robots swimming in our bodies? right. little computerized device that s will augment the immune system. they ll get cancer cells, go after leukemia. right. according to ray, we ll use these nanobots to accomplish a seemingly impossible feat, transferring the entire contents of our brains to a computer. in the future you think we ll
gravesite. so if you imagine a future a.i., artificial intelligence, that s very, very smart, can take all this information and create an avatar, that avatar would pass a test being indistinguishable from the original frederick kurzweil to people who knew him. is it ethical? people question the ethics around scientific advancement for years. it is ethical to overcome human suffering. if you have a better treatment for cancer, is that ethical? i mean, nobody debates that. yeah. any advice for me as i m going down my path to longevity? you ve got a very good shot, you know, 15 years from now getting the benefit of the full maturation of the biotechnology revolution. and that s just a bridge to nanotechnology and ultimately go out enough decades, being able to back up who you are and expand who you are. i think you re on a very good path to do that. ray. thank you, ray. an absolute pleasure. [ male announcer] surprise you re having triplets.
so we did the next best thing and rationalize that it s a good thing. but according to kurzweil there will soon be a way to circumvent death. there s some salmon. and the key to mortality lies in technology. medicine has undergone a grand transformation enabled by the genome project to where it is now an information technology. information technology grows exponentially. and that s quite radical. this is several billion times more powerful than the computers i used when i was an undergraduate. this amount of computation will be the size of a blood cell in the 2030s. it will be a billion times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller in 25 years. that s the radical implication. so there will be little robots swimming in our bodies? right. little computerized device
this information and create an avatar, that avatar would pass a test being indistinguishable from the original frederick kurzweil to people who knew him. is it ethical? people question the ethics around scientific advancement for years. it is ethical to overcome human suffering. if you have a better treatment for cancer, is that ethical? i mean, nobody debates that. yeah. any advice for me as i m going down my path to longevity? you ve got a very good shot, you know, 15 years from now getting the benefit of the full maturation of the biotechnology revolution. and that s just a bridge to nanotechnology and ultimately go out enough decades, being able to back up who you are and expand who you are. i think you re on a very good path to do that. ray. thank you, ray. an absolute pleasure. ???