According to a speech given by Ray Kurzweil at last week’s SCO6 supercomputing conference, humans will have the technology to live forever in about 15-30 years. 

Quite a bold claim.  And as much as I want to live for a millenium or so, I usually disregard such claims as just kinda stupid.  Don’t get me wrong, we’re going to get there, but it just doesn’t seem likely that it’s 15 years away.  However, Kurzweil isn’t exactly a nut job.  And his new book that documents how our biologies will seemlessly merge with GNR*, , has been endorsed by MIT profs, physicists.. even Bill Gates.

Kurzweil says he measured the progress of computing and tech over the past 25 years and projected it into the future.  A couple of his predictions:

- Doctors will be doing a backup of our memories by the late 2030s

- By the late 2020s, doctors will be sending intelligent bots, or nanobots, into our bloodstreams to keep us healthy, and into our brains to keep us young

- Scientists will be able to rejuvenate all of someone’s body tissues and organs by transforming their skin cells into youthful versions of other cell types

So, I guess what I’m driving at is this - you better make peace with all those annoying family members you’re sitting across the Thanksgiving table from today, because you may be dealing with them for a loooong time.

* For you Trailer Park denizens that happen to be reading this, I regret to inform you that “GNR” stands for “genetics, nanotechnology, robotics”.  I am afraid you will not have the opportunity to merge with Guns ‘n’ Roses anytime in the near future.  So please put away your Bic, cover your tits, and get off your boyfriend’s shoulders.  —Thanks, Dhadmin

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