The future already exists, you just have to look for it.
Interviewed via the Sun, is Ray Kurzweil’s optimistic two-decade
time frame perhaps influenced by his own advancing age (61)? He
says: I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20
years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies’ stone-
age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing. Then nano-
technology will let us live for ever. Already, blood cell-sized
submarines called nanobots are being tested in animals. These
will soon be used to destroy tumours, unblock clots and perform
operations without scars. Ultimately, nanobots will replace
blood cells and do their work thousands of times more
effectively. These technologies should not seem at all fanciful.
Our phones now perform tasks we wouldn’t have dreamed possible
20 years ago. When I was a student in 1965, my university’s only
computer cost £7million and was huge. Today your mobile phone is
a million times less expensive and a thousand times more
powerful. That’s a billion times