As AI infiltrates every aspect of our lives, who are some of the people behind this huge inflection point? In this special three-part series,... Could AI extend your life indefinitely? Futurist Ray ...

Kurzweil told a keynote audience at last week's SCO6 supercomputing conference that nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, while computers will back up our human ...

Ray Kurzweil, the technologist who called the spread of the internet decades early, says ageing could stop being a one-way ...

In an era marked by rapid technological progress, the idea of longevity escape velocity has emerged as a beacon of hope for those who dream of extending human lifespans indefinitely. Popularized by ...

This is Part Two of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those who would speed it up. This is an age-old ...

T he most radical futurist on Earth sinks into a large black chair in the corner of his cluttered office. He’s jet-lagged. His skin seems waxen, a sickly yellow against the dark blue of his rumpled ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil's goal is to not die at all. A far-fetched idea, and yet those who have followed Kurzweil's work over the decades know that many of his wild ideas and predictions come true.