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Transcendent Man - Ray Kurzweil’s Secret for Eternal Life

Nanobots. Lots of them. Floating through our blood streams, snapping at our synapses and repairing our bodies from within. Infused with advanced AI and launched off our planet, they will eventually explore and proliferate what’s evolved of humanity into the vastness of space.

Does this excite or frighten you?

Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil’s ideas surely should do both. And in the new documentary Transcendent Man, his life and ideas are put on display, from Singularity — the point when technology and AI become so advanced our lives are fundamentally altered (no, this doesn’t include Twitter) — to his family life.

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