Living To 150

Accelerating scientific advances will make for dramatic changes in the next few decades than most of us can imagine. Kurzweil gives us some idea of what this will mean.

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Ray Kurzweil predicts that a computer will be able to have as many thoughts as the human brain around 2045. This event, he calls it the Singularity, will have tremendous repercussions.

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A documentary is out of Ray Kurzweil, genius inventor and futurist. Kurzweil invented the scanner, the first electronic piano and dictation software.

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Gosh – I’d like to go to this – the Manhattan Beach Project, Los Angeles. It’s the conference I wanted to go to when I went to Convergence08 last November: because this on is focused specifically on longevity.
The field of longevity research is getting very exciting now. Aubrey de Grey is quoted as thinking there [...]

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Google and Nasa are backing Ray Kurzweil in a new school for ‘futurists’. The school will be located around the corner from Google in Silicon Valley.
The school will pull together people and ideas from rapidly growing and advancing disciplines which are going to affect our future – including health and longevity – tremendously. These [...]

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Every year sees an increase in life expectancy, and this rate of increase is accelerating.
For example, in the UK. Between 1981-91. Life expectancy for a 65-year-old man increased by 1.6 months. During the following decade it increased by 1.8 months. Between 1995 and 2005 the increase was 2.3 months.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=168
Will You Be Alive In [...]

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November 15-16th, 2008
This conference looks just brilliant. Relaxed, informal, networking with other enthusiasts and it should be fascinating.
Half the programme is generated by individuals setting up their own meetings and discussions; and the rest can choose to attend those they are interested in. There are meals for more networking on the Friday and the [...]

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