Listen to Ray Kurzweil, a famous futurist, predict human life in the coming years.
Ray Kurzweil is a renowned scientist in the field of futurology and the author of many popular books such as “The Age of Spiritual Machines” and “How to Create a Mind”.
His influence was so great that Google invited him to lead research on artificial intelligence.
In addition, he is known as a person who regularly makes predictions about the future, with an accuracy of up to 86%.
And below, are his predictions for human life after 2020.
In the words of Kurzweil earlier this year, in the future, “viral robots” will give us “full virtual reality experiences from within the nervous system itself”. In other words, our brain will be able to connect to the “cloud system”.
“This is similar to the fact that we increase storage capacity tens of thousands of times thanks to the use of cloud computing now, people in the future can completely expand their brains thanks to the internet. “.
And if so, we will be able to live in a virtual world – just like in the movie “The Matrix”.
Thanks to scientific progress, people will live longer.
According to Kurzweil, the viral robot in the human body will help us “perfect” the immune system. Thanks to this, people will be able to treat all kinds of diseases – including cancer.
This leads to a scenario that future researchers call “radical prolongation of life” – where death is also just a completely treatable disease.
It also makes us happier.
Kurzweil believes that the mechanization of people does not make us lose more “humanity” , but even the opposite. Viral robots not only make humans smarter, but also increase our emotional intelligence.
“We will be able to create deeper emotional expressions, thanks to the vast knowledge base of cloud technology,” said Kurzweil.
You will no longer spend a lot of time thinking of clever words, funny stories, because the speed of human thinking at this time will be accelerated many times.
The future “print whatever you need” will not be far away.
As 3D printing technology develops and expands, a lot of the things around us will become electronic information. And according to Kurzweil, by 2020, people will have “extremely rich lives and print anything they need”.
In fact, houses, or bridges built by 3D printing technology are appearing more and more in recent times.
In the future, death is not the end.
Kurzweil has emphasized many times that he will “revive ” his father – Frederick Kurzweil – through the help of artificial intelligence.
According to him, by 2030, we will be able to send microscopic robots into our brains to collect memories of people who have passed away. Combined with a DNA sample, humans can create a “virtual version” of the deceased, with extreme precision.
Kind of like what the future will look like.
The most important moment for humanity, according to Kurzweil, is the year 2045.
It was a moment that future researchers call “Singularity,” when the pace of biological evolution was surpassed by artificial intelligence.
“…is the future time when the speed of technology development is so fast that it will completely change people’s lives. At that time, all familiar concepts of life will be changed. completely, from economic models to the human life cycle, and even death”.
Kurzweil believes that, by 2045, the computing power of artificial intelligence will be billions of times that of human intelligence.
And our lives will never be the same again.
The brain will no longer be confined to the body.
Kurzweil as well as future researchers believe that this is an inevitable consequence of Singularity. Accordingly, you can switch your consciousness, from relying on the brain, to relying on the computer.
Even Stephen Hawking believes this is possible.
“I think the brain is just a program in the cognitive system, like a computer, so it is theoretically possible to copy your brain into a computer and create a life form later. Of course, for modern science this is still out of reach,” Kurzweil said.
But this probably won’t be the case after 2045.
Humans will customize the body like in the game.
As human consciousness can be uploaded online, and virtual reality systems become more complete, then of course we will also have virtual bodies to use in this environment.
“The virtual human body will be as detailed as our own. In a virtual reality environment, we need a body to use, and our mind will link to that body. “ – said Kurzweil.
And we can also do body customization in virtual reality to suit the best – this is similar to customizing characters in video games.
According to Kurzweil, his predictions were by no means unfounded.
“My core thesis is ‘Law of Accelerating returns’, that IT solutions will evolve on a predictable and exponential trajectory, in stark contrast to the ‘completely human’ view. cannot predict the future’ that we often encounter,” wrote Kurzweil in 2010.
For him, it is impossible to predict whether a certain company will dominate the market, or whether the war in the Middle East will ever end is unpredictable, but how far technology can progress. “completely foreseen” – and this is also the basis on which he can make predictions about the future.