Futurist Ray Kurzweil: Nanotech could help overcome disease and aging by 2040. Oct. 2, 2009— -- In 30 or 40 years, we'll have microscopic machines traveling through our bodies, repairing damaged ...

Time travel has long lived in the realm of science fiction, but a prominent futurist now argues that humans could effectively ...

Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed from the world of quantum physics. American computer scientist and ...

Ray Kurzweil's eerily prescient predictions about AI are underpinned by a simple line chart. The chart, tracking the amount of computing power you could buy for a dollar over time ...

Humanity has heard bold promises about conquering aging before, but few are as provocative as the claim that people could effectively move backward in time within the next four years. At the center of ...

Part 1 of TED Radio Hour's "Prophets of Technology: The OG influencers" Futurist Ray Kurzweil was early to forecast AI would turbocharge human potential. At 77, he shares lessons from 60 years of ...

Computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes humanity will achieve “longevity escape velocity” in just four years. The concept basically states that due to medical and technological advances, ...

"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Contents Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The ...

Ray Kurzweil is a technologist and futurist and the author, most recently, of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the ...