Raymond Kursweil believes that if we can just manage to live until 2015 we can probably live indefinitely, if not forever. That's his assessment of how fast medicine is moving and discovering ways to cure diseases. He also believes that we'll solve the problems of fossil fuel dependency, global warming and virtually all the many modern day problems.
If you aren't familiar with Raymond Kursweil you should be. The best description I can think of for him is a futurist. His view of the future isn't gloomy, but quite optimistic. He is a strong believer in technology. I attended a lecture he presented by hologram at the University of Arizona a short time back. He wasn't there, but a hologram of him hovered over the podium on stage and he actually took questions from the audience after his presentation. Shades of Star Trek. Beam me up, Scotty.
Mr. Kursweil also has a website that is about cutting edge high tech discoveries and inventions in all, and I mean all, scientific fields of endeavor, from nano technology to space exploration to biotechnology to artificial inteligence. He believes that by the year 2020 we will have developed computers that equal or surpass human intelligence. In fact his website is called KursweilAI.net. I signed up for a daily feed from his site and get the most amazing information daily. I look forward to each morning to see what new and amazing thing is coming down the pike.
Want to be amazed? Sign up to get the feed from his site at http://www.kursweilai.net/ and be prepared to be amazed.
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