Don’t get hit by a bus before 2029 arrives. Interviewed via the Sun , is Ray Kurzweil’s optimistic two-decade time frame perhaps influenced by his own advancing age (61)? He says:
I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies’ stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing. Then nano-technology willlet us live for ever.
Already, blood cell-sized submarinescalled nanobots are being tested in animals. These will soon be used to destroy tumours, unblock clots and perform operations without scars. Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively.
These technologies should not seem at all fanciful. Our phones now perform tasks we wouldn’t have dreamed possible 20 years ago. When I was a student in 1965, my university’s only computer cost £7million and was huge. Today your mobile phone is a million times less expensive and a thousand times morepowerful. That’s a billion times more capable for the same price. We will experience another billion-fold increase in technological capability for the same cost in the next25 years.
In 2008 we discovered skin cells can be transformed into the equivalent of embryonic cells. Soorgans will soon be repaired and eventually grown. In a few years most people will have their entire genetic sequences mapped. Before long, we will all know the diseaseswe are susceptible toand gene therapies will mean virtually no genetic problems that can’t be erased.
It’s important to ensure we get to take advantage of the upcoming technologies by living well and not getting hit by a bus. By the middle of this century we will have back-up copies of theinformation in our bodies and brains that make us who we are. Then we really will be immortal.
http://www.disinfo.com/2012/07/ray-kurzweil-on-how-we-will-live-forever-beginning-in-twenty-years/
Ray Kurzweil Plansto Create a Mind atGoogle—and HaveIt Serve You
The technologist speaks about an ambitious plan to build a powerful artificial intelligence.
Hal from 2001: A Space Odyessy .
Famed AI researcher and incorrigible singularity forecaster Ray Kurzweil recentlyshed some more lighton what his new job at Google will entail. It seems that he does, indeed, plan to build a prodigious artificial intelligence, which he hopes will understand the world to a much more sophisticated degree than anything built before–or at least that will act as if it does.
Kurzweil’s AI will be designed to analyze the vast quantities ofinformation Google collects and to then serve as a super-intelligent personal assistant. He suggests it could eavesdrop on your every phone conversation and email exchange and then provide interesting and important information before you ever knew you wanted it. It sounds like a scary-smart version of Google Now (see “ Google’s Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead ”).
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510121/ray-kurzweil-plans-to-create-a-mind-at-google-and-have-it-serve-you/
http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/googles-director-of-engineering-ray-kurzweil-is-building-your-cybernetic-friend/

If you are a devotee of Ray Kurzweil, the entrepreneur, you will believe that by 2029, we will have passed the Turing test: a machine can replace a human for any job.
Wait and see.

They already made some.

Mankind has already passed the point of using sustainable resources on this planet. Without death, the problem will accelerate. We have already eaten most of the fish in the sea. New England cod fishing was reduced 75% this week because the stocks cannot recover. Tuna is almost gone. Global warming is moving the grain belts North.

We are in big trouble.

Agree. Even animals are outnumbered already.

Agree. Even animals are outnumbered already.

nothing a little Ice-Age in about a Decade or so can't cure!

Agree. Even animals are outnumbered already.

I don't want to live forever. Not sure there's any actual way to stop death, as it's mother nature taking it's natural course. Sorry, butI just don't see how we can really put a stop to natural physical decline. Does technology understand how a body works? I think this type of thing would worry me. A bit like meddling with nature.

The devil is in the details. Some details may take 20 years themselves, and often as you answer questions you find new questions which need answers.

I certainly wouldn't hold my breath, but I do believe it is just a matter of time.
Me? I dont know, have not made up my mind . . . . ill let you know in a few hundred years . . .

Well then you should take some time and learn about the science involved.

Let's Be Optimists!

Then the grain belts would be expanding, resulting in more food production, just as it happened during the global Medieval Warm Period.

Not really. There are other options.

If we get that advanced, we will be able to sustain life with a simple pill or injection of the vital nutrients needed for life. We will not need food.

Also, the very Elite few who will be running the world will likely continue to orchestrate mass genocide or at the very least they will not allow the prolonging of life to the ordinary people (slaves) unless they are exceptionally useful.

Or mandatory birth control could be in effect. A couple would need a special permit to procreate just like they did in the old days. The word f u c k means "Fornicate under consent (of the) King.

So you might need to have a desirable skill or usefulness if you want to be one of the special slaves who get to live.

Also, on a more positive future outlook, for people who still would like to enjoy a meal, I'm sure they will be able to create food in abundance with nano technology.

Toxins and stress will kill you. We will need to learn to eat real food that is good for the body. Doing drugs and eating junk food will make you ineligible for any extreme life extending proceedures.

(I looked into that particular future and that is what I saw.) LOL

I would love to live for 500 years, or a 1000 years. I might eventually suicide, but I'd opt for a cure to 'death from old age' if it was an option.

The problem with extending life is that you'll just be old longer. Who'd want that?

Yes, if you are not in good shape whats the point? But if you feel good, feel younger than you are, I would chose to live a long time.

Cool! And as a bonus, their next project will await them....a cure for overpopulation! Maybe they can engineer some kind of...oh, I don't know..death?

or maybe they will discover how to trap the soul and put it into a brand new cloned body of your choice.

I heard (in occult circles) that they have to chop your head off just before you die. The soul energy remains in the head for about 20 seconds. The head is sealed in some kind of container that traps the soul energy, then it is transferred to the cloned body.

No, see that's the great part of human aging. The process of aging IS what kills you.

The process would be what would need to be reversed.

ie, if they succeed you would literally be "young" for as long as the method continued to work.