Ray Kurzweil Predicts 2029 as the Tipping Point Toward Human Immortality

On April 20, according to a report by the U.S. tech blog GeekWire, Ray Kurzweil, chancellor of Singularity University and former director of engineering at Google, who has been hailed by Bill Gates as “the best predictor of the future of artificial intelligence,”In a recent exclusive interview with *Playboy* magazine, Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering, shared his insights on technology and its profound impact on human longevity. Kurzweil stated that in the near future, technology will make us smarter and healthier. During the interview, he also discussed how technology will influence human sexual practices.



I. Technology Helps Humans Become Smarter

Kurzweil states that our brain capacity is limited and at least a million times slower than electronic computing. The part of the brain that controls thought is known as the cerebral cortex. By around 2030, we will be able to use nanobots to enter the brain harmlessly via capillaries and connect our cerebral cortex to the cloud. At that time, we will create more profound forms of communication, deeper music, and funnier jokes than those familiar to us today. We will become more interesting, more attractive, and better at expressing love.

Kurzweil compares this transformation to the course of human evolution, akin to our ancestors’ development and utilization of the prefrontal cortex two million years ago. He believes that the resulting benefits will be substantial.

II. Technology Helps Humans Become Healthier

Kurzweil states that we are beginning to overhaul the outdated “life software,” namely the 23,000 “small programs” in the human body known as genes. Through reprogramming, we will help humanity move away from disease and aging. By around 2020, we will begin using nanorobots to take over the immune system. By 2030, nanorobots in the bloodstream will be able to destroy pathogens, clear debris, blood clots, and tumors, correct DNA errors, and even reverse the aging process.

Kurzweil firmly believes that the “Singularity” is inevitable, at which point humanity will achieve immortality with the aid of technology. He predicts that by then, the creative power of non-biological intelligence will reach its peak, surpassing the sum total of all human intelligence today by a factor of one billion.

III. Joining Google to Build a Knowledge Graph

At the end of 2012, the 64-year-old entrepreneur, inventor, futurist, and legendary geek landed his first formal job in his life, becoming a Director of Engineering at Google.

In 2015, the U.S. tech media outlet The Verge reported that Google was recently building its own “Knowledge Graph.” To address user searches related to health concerns, Google began displaying relevant medical information in search results, including symptoms and treatments for more than 400 common health conditions. Google is also collaborating with a team of medical professionals to ensure the accuracy of this information.

In fact, as early as 2004, Ray Kurzweil published a book titled Live Long Enough to Live Forever. He boldly predicted that humans could achieve immortality. Not only did he make this claim, but he also acted on it. His plan involves consuming 230 various “vitamin pills” every day—pills that are notably large and mostly selected by himself. His strategy centers on bodily “reengineering” to halt aging, relying on the massive intake of these “pills,” thereby rendering his body semi-chemicalized. In pursuing his immortality plan, he is driven not by religious motives but by purely rational calculation.