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REPSECTED SCIENTIST BELIEVES: IMMORTALITY's JUST 20 YEARS AWAY
April 14, 2005 Provided by: National Enquirer Online
Immortality is a dead certainty -- and it's as little as 20 years away, says an expert.
"Death is a tragedy," declares award-winning researcher Ray Kurzweil. "I don't think we have to die.
"The technology and the means for making that a reality are close at hand. Many scientists believe we will have the means to stop and reverse aging within the next two decades.
"In the meantime, we can slow the aging process to a crawl. You can live long enough to live forever."
The MIT graduate sees us embarking on a "golden era of biotechnology" with advances coming at a dizzying pace -- and his conclusions are thoroughly grounded.
He is a respected scientist who invented the flatbed scanner and a reading system for the blind.
He's a recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize -- a prestigious award for inventors -- and is also a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The Christian Science Monitor has called Kurzweil a "modern Edison."
Now he's unveiled perhaps his most important contribution -- a "longevity program." It consists of diet, exercise and nutritional supplements intended to slow the aging process until scientists develop ways to halt and reverse aging, which he believes will happen within 20 years.
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He outlines the path to immortality in his exciting book "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever." In the book, co-authored with Dr. Terry Grossman, Kurzweil says, "We are actually developing blood cell-sized submarines called nanobots to be sent into the human body on vital health missions . . . We will be able to control their movements as if we were inside, just as soldiers today remotely control intelligent weapons systems."
Eventually, the nanobots will keep us young forever. He believes they will be programmed by computers to enter our bodies by the millions via our bloodstreams.
These armies of miniature robots will be programmed to repair and replace aging cells and root out disease.
They will repair bones and muscles, fight germs, fix mutant DNA, and even make us smarter. "All the genes we have, the 20,000 to 30,000 genes, are little software programs," he says.
Kurzweil is prolonging his own life with a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet packed with anti-inflammatory agents such as omega-3 oils found in fish and nuts. He takes supplements each day, drinks lots of green tea, exercises regularly, and enjoys long walks.
Although Kurzweil hopes to live forever and believes eternal youth is within his grasp, he is hedging his bets. Just in case he's wrong and he dies, he has plans to have his body cryogenically frozen until technology is advanced enough to reanimate him.
"I believe we'll have the technology for reanimation in 50 years."
-- S.D. HUBBARD
April 14, 2005 Provided by: National Enquirer Online
Immortality is a dead certainty -- and it's as little as 20 years away, says an expert.
"Death is a tragedy," declares award-winning researcher Ray Kurzweil. "I don't think we have to die.
"The technology and the means for making that a reality are close at hand. Many scientists believe we will have the means to stop and reverse aging within the next two decades.
"In the meantime, we can slow the aging process to a crawl. You can live long enough to live forever."
The MIT graduate sees us embarking on a "golden era of biotechnology" with advances coming at a dizzying pace -- and his conclusions are thoroughly grounded.
He is a respected scientist who invented the flatbed scanner and a reading system for the blind.
He's a recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize -- a prestigious award for inventors -- and is also a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The Christian Science Monitor has called Kurzweil a "modern Edison."
Now he's unveiled perhaps his most important contribution -- a "longevity program." It consists of diet, exercise and nutritional supplements intended to slow the aging process until scientists develop ways to halt and reverse aging, which he believes will happen within 20 years.
NANOBOTS
He outlines the path to immortality in his exciting book "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever." In the book, co-authored with Dr. Terry Grossman, Kurzweil says, "We are actually developing blood cell-sized submarines called nanobots to be sent into the human body on vital health missions . . . We will be able to control their movements as if we were inside, just as soldiers today remotely control intelligent weapons systems."
Eventually, the nanobots will keep us young forever. He believes they will be programmed by computers to enter our bodies by the millions via our bloodstreams.
These armies of miniature robots will be programmed to repair and replace aging cells and root out disease.
They will repair bones and muscles, fight germs, fix mutant DNA, and even make us smarter. "All the genes we have, the 20,000 to 30,000 genes, are little software programs," he says.
Kurzweil is prolonging his own life with a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet packed with anti-inflammatory agents such as omega-3 oils found in fish and nuts. He takes supplements each day, drinks lots of green tea, exercises regularly, and enjoys long walks.
Although Kurzweil hopes to live forever and believes eternal youth is within his grasp, he is hedging his bets. Just in case he's wrong and he dies, he has plans to have his body cryogenically frozen until technology is advanced enough to reanimate him.
"I believe we'll have the technology for reanimation in 50 years."
-- S.D. HUBBARD
