The World in 2030

The World in 2030 287
bodies and brains and create virtually any product
from mere information, resulting in remarkable gains
in prosperity. We will develop means to expand our
physical and mental capabilities vastly by directly interfacing
our biological systems with human-created
technology…
Another important line of attack is to regrow our
cells, tissues, and even whole organs, and introduce
them into our bodies without surgery. One major
benefit of therapeutic cloning is that we will be able
to create these new tissues and organs from versions
of our cells that have also been made younger – the
emerging field of rejuvenation medicine. 508
And, three years after that book was first published, Ray
Kurzweil is now predicting ‘immortality medicine’ will
arrive even sooner than he first suggested. Reporting on
a conference called ‘Transvision 2007’ Reason Magazine
reported:
Kurzweil believes that humanity will accelerate itself
to utopia (immortality, ubiquitous AI, nanotech
abundance) in the next 20 to 30 years. For example,
he noted that average life expectancy increases by
about 3 months every year. Kurzweil then claimed
that longevity trends are accelerating so fast that
the life expectancy will increase more than one year
for each year that passes in about 15 years. In other
words, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life
expectancy could be indefinitely long. 509