Ray Kurzweil Featured On PBS

 Singularity

In a recent PBS Newshour episode, interviewer Paul Solman questioned Ray Kurzweil for some insights about where technology is headed in the coming decades. They covered the topics of artificial intelligence, extending lifespans through supplementation, and digital immortality.

T he impending realization that exponential technology's impacts are causing in the world is more and more being reflected by the media. Looking for answers, many media organizations turn to Ray Kurzweil for advice on what these changes will bring about. Kurzweil's record of extapolating future implications for exponential technology through his books like The Singularity Is Near ensure his authority in future predictions.

Recently Kurzweil was featured on the PBS Newshour program.  The program covered a variety of topics, including Singularity University and  how man-machine merging in the future may lead to digital immortality.  According to Kurzweil:

We will get to a point 15 years from now where, according to my models, we will be adding more than a year every year to your remaining life expectancy, where the sands of time are running in rather than running out, where your remaining life expectancy actually stretches out as time goes by. —

In the program, Kurzweil also explains some of the medical  treatments he is undergoing to extend his lifespan far enough to witness the Singularity.  In one example, he discusses that in a baby, 90 percent of the cell membrane is made up of phosphatidylcholine. That substance is responsible for letting the nutrients in, letting toxins out, keeping the cell supple. By the time you're 90 years old, the level of phosphatidylcholine you have will be less than 10 percent of what you had as a child. Kurzweil tells interviewer Paul Solman that he takes IV infusions of phosphatidylcholine.

SOURCE  PBS

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