Transcendent Man

Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor, futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. In the film, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around his world as he discusses his thoughts on the technological singularity, a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in artificial intelligence, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics will result in the creation of a humanmachine civilization.

Raymond Kurzweil, noted inventor and futurist, is a man who refuses to accept the inevitability of physical death. He proposes that the Law of Accelerating Returnsthe exponential increase in the growth of information technologywill result in a singularity, a point where humanity and machines will merge, allowing one to transcend biological mortality advances in genetics will provide the knowledge to reprogram biology, eliminate disease and stop the aging process nanotechnology will keep humans healthy from the inside using robotic red blood cells and provide a humancomputer interface within the brain robotics, or artificial intelligence, will make superhuman intelligence possible, including the ability to back up the mind.Most of the movie has an implication of a religious background, and is applying technology to accomplish the goals with what is considered to be god like powers, through interdependent connection. Kurzweil has been criticized as being a modern day prophet, however the film describes a detailed list of his inventions. Rays dedication to improving the blinds quality of life is displayed in the climax of the film, with his miniature blind reading tool. Ray speaks of emailing someone a blouse, or printing out a toaster utilizing nanotechnology. Eventually swarms of our nanotechnology will be sent by us into the universe to, as Kurzweil puts it, wake up the universe. ........

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