Ray Kurzweil, a celebrated futurist and Google’s Director of Engineering, is no stranger to bold predictions. From ...

Google's resident futurist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil says humans are just a few scientific breakthroughs away from achieving eternal life. During a visit to our office, the Google director ...

Google's resident futurist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil takes 100 pills a day to help him reach "singularity," the point at which he believes exponential developments in technology will allow ...

People are waiting for the day when artificial intelligence can pass as a human, and with Google and author Ray Kurzweil teaming up to create a human-like chatbot, that day could be around 2029.

Google's leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil, wants to live forever. And like Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley titans who have taken up the age-old search for immortality, he thinks he can.

In March of this year, Ray Kurzweil—former Google engineer and prominent AI-centric futurist—told multiple outlets that he believed humanity would achieve longevity escape velocity by 2029.

Popularized by renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil, this concept suggests that humanity is approaching a pivotal moment when our ability to extend life will outpace the aging process itself.

Ray Kurzweil is a technologist and futurist and the author, most recently, of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the ...

Kurzweil, who is now 64 years old, knows that there’s a chance that his flesh body (or as he calls it, “Body 1.0”) could die before he gets to upload his brain into a computer and fly around ...

“The Singularity is Nearer,” Ray Kurzweil, was on my library’s new bookshelves when I desperately needed reading material. I decided to risk it. Sadly, my expectations were met. It has almos ...

Google's leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil, thinks his diet can help him live forever, a goal he recently told Playboy we could be close to achieving by as early as 2029. Kurzweil says he spends "a ...