Futurist Raymond Kurzweil believes that humans can live to be 1,000 years old thanks to a new discovery.
According to Kurzweil's new book, nanorobots could be the key to stopping human aging and helping us live thousands of years. This is especially shocking information because humans have only witnessed a maximum lifespan of just over 100 years old, let alone 200 years old.
Can people in the future live for many centuries?
Anti-aging continues to be a common research focus of famous scientists. While many people seek to slow the body's degenerative processes and simply prolong their lives, others like Kurzweil seem to have larger goals.
Kurzweil writes extensively about the use of nanotechnology in this pursuit both in his new book The Singularity is Nearer and in an essay posted on Wired. Both discuss combining biotechnology with artificial intelligence (AI) to help us overcome the short human lifespan by minimizing human aging as much as possible.
See, one of the biggest problems with aging is that our bodies and cells begin to accumulate errors as more cells reproduce over and over again. Many anti-aging therapies seek to minimize these errors, allowing the body to repair itself more quickly, thereby slowing the overall aging process.
Nanorobots can become powerful weapons to help prevent aging in humans.
For Kurzweil, the only solution here is to "cure yourself of aging." It's definitely a very popular target. Kurzweil himself admits that his predictions sound absurd at the moment, but he believes that advances in medical nanorobots will soon help us cure human aging in all aspects. Each human body may even need several hundred billion nanorobots to repair and strengthen degenerating organs and keep them functioning at their best.
Although this is just one person's vision of the future, it will be interesting to see if this futurist's predictions come true. With what is happening with AI, anything is possible.
