Transcendent Man Film Screening Live with Ray Kurzweil Wednesday, February...
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Film Summary
TRANSCENDENT
MAN chronicles the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and
futurist that presents his bold vision of the Singularity, a point in
the near future when technology will be changing so rapidly, that we
will have to enhance ourselves with artificial intelligence to keep up.
Ray predicts this will be the dawning of a new civilization in which we
will no longer be dependent on our physical bodies, we will be trillions
of times more intelligent and there will be no clear distinction
between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. Human aging
and illness will be reversed; world hunger and poverty will be solved
and we will ultimately cure death. Critics accuse Ray of being too
optimistic and argue that the dangers of the Singularity far outweigh
the benefits, pointing out the apocalyptic implications that once
machines achieve consciousness, we may not be able to control them.