"The 75-year-old computer scientist and former Google engineer,
who received the National Medal of Technology in 1999 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002, made this shocking prediction — and many others — in recent decades.
Now, as the fated date approaches, Kurzweil’s comments on immortality have resurfaced in a two–part YouTube series by tech vlogger Adagio..... in this 2005 book, “The Singularity Is Near,” in which he predicted that technology will allow humans achieve to everlasting life by 2030.
Kurzweil has previously suggested that, in less than a decade, humans will have created technology to fend off aging and illness with microscopic robots, sent to repair our bodies on a cellular level. And, indeed, medical engineers are currently fast at work on these disease-fighting bots.
He also claims that such nanotechnology will allow people to eat whatever they want while staying thin and energized.
Silicon Valley billionaires including Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos have meanwhile put a lot of stock in Kurzweil’s predictions, dedicating their careers to developing technology that will enable humans to live well into their hundreds."
New York Post
