Dr. Ray Kurzweil’s current predictions include:
1. self driving cars by 2017
2. personal assistant search engines by 2019
3. switching off our fat cells by 2020
4. full immersive virtual realities by 2023
5. 100 percent energy from solar by 2033
6. by 2040-2045 we will be forever young and maybe immortal
Dr. Kurzweil now works as a Director of Engineering at Google. According to The Wall Street Journal his current project is “to bring natural language understanding to Google.”
report | Immortality via the Singularity
by Lucy
Our greatest challenge
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.” — Steve Jobs
Society faces many challenges: disease, poverty, clean water, hunger, limited resources, natural disasters, high crime rates, and the biggest of all mortality. In the world there are many diseases, some are rare, such as Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, and some are extremely common, such as the common cold.
There have been outbreaks of many diseases throughout history and even today. The bubonic plague is an example of an outbreak that occurred in 1347. A more current disease outbreak is ebola. Poverty is another big issue all over the world.
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