{"id":25672,"date":"2016-05-13T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/radical-life-extension-coming-futurist-says"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:52","slug":"radical-life-extension-coming-futurist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/radical-life-extension-coming-futurist-says","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Radical life extension\u2019 coming, futurist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radical-life-extension-coming-futurist-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KITCHENER \u2014 Big jumps in life expectancy will begin in as little as 10 years thanks to advances in nanotechnology and 3D printing that will also enable wireless connections among human brains and cloud computers, a leading futurist said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 10 or 15 years from now we will be adding more than a year, every year, to your life expectancy,\u201d Ray Kurzweil told an audience of 800 people at Communtech\u2019s annual Tech Leadership conference.<\/p>\n<p>Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor and author, as well as a director of engineering at Google, calls this \u201cradical life extension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/6552546--radical-life-extension-coming-futurist-says\/\">http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/6552546--radical-life-exte...rist-says\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KITCHENER \u2014 Big jumps in life expectancy will begin in as little as 10 years thanks to advances in nanotechnology and 3D printing that will also enable wireless connections among human brains and cloud computers, a leading futurist said Thursday. \u201cIn 10 or 15 years from now we will be adding more than a year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,1523,269,4,47,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-computing","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67501,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672\/revisions\/67501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}