Google’s chief futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons humans will have eternal life as early as 2029.

In case you have any doubts, Kurzweil has been spookily accurate in his predictions so far.

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Back in the 1980s – when we were still lugging around our Motorola bricks and shoulder pads were a totally normal thing to wear – he already prophesied a bunch of things that are now part of everyday life.


This includes self-driving cars, prosthetic legs for paraplegics, and wirelessly accessing information on the internet.

Spooky AF, we know.

He also reckons that ‘singularity’ – where human intelligence will be merged with nonbiological technology – will happen in 2045.

‘The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will reach a level that’s a billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today,’ he told Playboy (yeah, turns out they do articles too…).

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‘I believe we will reach a point around 2029 when medical technologies will add one additional year every year to your life expectancy,’ Kurzweil added.



‘By that I don’t mean life expectancy based on your birthdate, but rather your remaining life expectancy.’

Ray Kurzweil has been scarily accurate in the past (Picture: Getty Images)

He went on to say that we might be able to just hack our bodies and live forever.

Whether this is something we’ll actually want to do is a different matter, of course.

H/T Science Explorer