{"id":28203,"date":"2016-07-22T23:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/ray-kurzweil-outlines-the-coming-biomedical-revolution-video"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:04:21","slug":"ray-kurzweil-outlines-the-coming-biomedical-revolution-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/ray-kurzweil-outlines-the-coming-biomedical-revolution-video","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil Outlines the Coming Biomedical Revolution [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCooCk4i62E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Will we live longer lives in the future? According to Ray Kurzweil, it\u2019s only a matter of time until technology begins successfully tackling age-related disease\u2014and life expectancy grows longer and longer. At some point, technology will annually add more than a year to our life expectancy\u2014allowing us to indefinitely increase lifespans, and perhaps eventually live as long as we want.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe will get to a point where our longevity, our remaining life expectancy is moving on away from us. The sands of time will run in rather than run out,\u201d Kurzweil says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How will this happen? We\u2019re now learning to reprogram biology to cure disease and repair the body. This will accelerate in coming decades and be followed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/04\/19\/ray-kurzweil-predicts-three-technologies-will-define-our-future\/\">nanotechnology revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/07\/22\/ray-kurzweil-outlines-the-coming-biomedical-revolution-video\/?utm_content=buffer446e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/07\/22\/ray-kurzweil-outlines-t...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will we live longer lives in the future? According to Ray Kurzweil, it\u2019s only a matter of time until technology begins successfully tackling age-related disease\u2014and life expectancy grows longer and longer. At some point, technology will annually add more than a year to our life expectancy\u2014allowing us to indefinitely increase lifespans, and perhaps eventually live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,4,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28203","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61073,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28203\/revisions\/61073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}