{"id":29244,"date":"2016-08-22T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ray-kurzweil-explains-why-radical-life-extension-will-be-better-than-you-think"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:54:50","slug":"ray-kurzweil-explains-why-radical-life-extension-will-be-better-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ray-kurzweil-explains-why-radical-life-extension-will-be-better-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Radical Life Extension Will Be Better Than You Think"},"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\/m1IUbBNIfiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, a few words from Ray.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>According to Ray Kurzweil, we\u2019re approaching a time when humans will begin to radically extend their lifespans. This sounds good on the surface, but will we have enough resources to support everyone? And won\u2019t living indefinitely get boring eventually? Not so much, Kurzweil says.<\/p>\n<p>Kurzweil suggests that by the time we\u2019ve significantly extended our average lifespan, we\u2019ll no longer be in a scarcity-driven world competing for finite resources. Take energy, for example. Kurzweil notes solar is on an exponential curve and has been doubling every two years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/longevity\/@dr2073\/ray-kurzweil-explains-why-radical-life-extension-will-be-better-than-you-think\">https:\/\/steemit.com\/longevity\/@dr2073\/ray-kurzweil-explains-...-you-think<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, a few words from Ray. According to Ray Kurzweil, we\u2019re approaching a time when humans will begin to radically extend their lifespans. This sounds good on the surface, but will we have enough resources to support everyone? And won\u2019t living indefinitely get boring eventually? Not so much, Kurzweil says. Kurzweil suggests that by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244","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=29244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60678,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244\/revisions\/60678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}