Longevity science

As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die?

My plan is to stick around. We’ll get to a point about 15 years from now where we’re adding more than a year every year to your life expectancy.

Will our increased understanding of how our brains work allow us to transcend human nature?

Yes indeed.

Ray Kurzweil, the software inventor and visionary, argues that human intelligence will radically evolve beyond biology and become embedded in new "spiritual" machines.

The book, How to Create a Mind, is available through Amazon and BN.com