A former Google engineer assures that humanity will achieve immortality in 8 years

Ray Kurzweil, in his multiple publications, he has earned guru status for his technological vision of the future. He was a director of engineering at Google and is known for his risky predictions. In his latest prophecy, the expert predicts this humanity will achieve immortality in the next 8 years.

In his record, of the 147 ads he made, managed to get it right 86% of the time. So, in 1999 he predicted that in the next decade there would be self-driving cars and that cell phones would answer all our questions.

According to Kurzweil – who also invented the first computer scanner and the first speech synthesis synthesizer – the creation of this technology will be possible thanks to the expansion in genetics, nanotechnology and robotics.

In a discussion hosted by YouTube channel Adagio, Kurzweil said that “nanobots” will have the ability to repair cells and damaged tissues that deteriorate as the body ages.

For this engineer, this feature will lead to an improvement in the immune system against diseases such as cancer or heart attacks, which will lead to a aging delay.

These nanobots are small robots, 50 to 100 nanometers in diameter, that perform clinical medicine tasks. They are used in research as DNA probes, cell imaging materials, and cell-specific delivery vehicles.

The main areas in which Kurzweil, of whom Bill Gates has said he is “the best predictor of the future of artificial intelligence”, revolves around the singularity.

In that sense, Kurzweil argued that technology will become powerful enough to help humanity live forever, in what’s known as a “singularity.” A theoretical point where artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence, which affects the course of evolution of the species.

Another of his estimates is that, by 2045, when artificial intelligence reaches the computing power 1 billion times higher to humans and which will have repercussions in the improvement of biology. This will have an impact on the artificial evolution of people.

With a look to the future

But their predictions are not based on chance or a dream message, but on the study and calculation of current technological factors to make approximations to their future evolution.

In 2020, he argued that engineering could cure neurological diseases like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and strokes, or that everything could be printed using 3D printers. Nine years later, he points out that machines will be able to work autonomously and generate new knowledge.

Convinced defender that artificial systems will never take over humanity, Kurzweil understands that the only way to evolve is through a man-machine synthesis that will help the species to progress, within which he highlighted the ability to think in smarter way.

In another of his forecasts, he assures that by 2030 humans will be able to do it upload all information from our brain to the internet cloud.

But it will be in 2099 when technological progress will drag machines to fully integrate into our lives, to the point that they will have a legal status similar to that of people.