The man takes dozens of supplements and pills daily to elongate his life, and claims that he has already slowed his aging. Ray Kurzweil has been living his life looking forward to this point because he thinks it will be part and parcel to the end of aging, a massive increase in our life-expectancy. The whole point of the Singularity is that one cannot predict past it. What can we do to prevent a future like 1984 or Brave New World? One thing that academic experience has taught me is that I feel powerless unless there’s some agency in what’s being talked about, some sense of how I can contribute to the potential eventualities that are discussed. As one of Penn State’s few students of Science, Technology, and Society, I talk about the future of technology on a regular basis. Once you appreciate the Singularity, it’s hard to concentrate on anything else. How about that, a series of bits that define our core human experience! Kurzweil believes that society is close to controlling domains such as art and music as information technologies, and that our next major frontier is simulating the capacity for personality traits such as humor and love in our artificial intelligence applications.
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