If Ray, a genius by all accounts, is serious and correct, that means he will support population limits so only some of us will live forever. Wonder what the criteria are for the chosen few?
"'I am serious about it,' said Mr. Kurzweil, a wiry man with few lines on his face for a 56-year-old. 'I think death is a tragedy. I think aging is a tragedy. And going beyond our limitations is what our species is all about.'
The study of human biology, he said, is increasingly intersecting with his main field of expertise - computing. Mr. Kurzweil points to the advances in medicine and genetics as leading toward a view of biology as a kind of computation."
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