{"id":191338,"date":"2024-06-17T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-scientist-says-humans-are-rapidly-approaching-singularity-and-plausible-immortality"},"modified":"2024-06-17T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:22:23","slug":"a-scientist-says-humans-are-rapidly-approaching-singularity-and-plausible-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-scientist-says-humans-are-rapidly-approaching-singularity-and-plausible-immortality","title":{"rendered":"A Scientist Says Humans Are Rapidly Approaching Singularity\u2014and Plausible Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-scientist-says-humans-are-rapidly-approaching-singularity-and-plausible-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over five decades, futurist Raymond Kurzweil has shown a propensity for understanding how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/design\/a20297\/a-computer-painted-this-rembrandt\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">computers<\/a> can change our world. Now he\u2019s ready to anoint nanorobots as the key to allowing humans to transcend life\u2019s ~120-year threshold.<\/p>\n<p>As he wrote\u2014both in the upcoming <em>The Singularity is Nearer<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/535433\/the-singularity-is-nearer-by-ray-kurzweil\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">book<\/a> (set for release on June 25) and in an essay <a href=\"https:\/\/helix-sleep.tkjf.net\/c\/3006986\/605588\/9928?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fthe-singularity-is-nearer-book-ray-kurzweil%2F&subId1=pop\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">published<\/a> in <em>Wired <\/em>\u2014the merging of biotechnology with artificial intelligence will lead to nanotechnology helping \u201covercome the limitations of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/health\/a23117\/child-born-three-biological-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">biological<\/a> organs altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As our bodies accumulate errors when cells reproduce over and over, it invites damage. That damage can get repaired quickly by young bodies, but less so when age piles up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over five decades, futurist Raymond Kurzweil has shown a propensity for understanding how computers can change our world. Now he\u2019s ready to anoint nanorobots as the key to allowing humans to transcend life\u2019s ~120-year threshold. As he wrote\u2014both in the upcoming The Singularity is Nearer book (set for release on June 25) and in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,4,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}