I'm going to live forever...just ask Ray Kurzweil.

I must be a prophet. Or minds think alike. Remember my post of our intelligence becoming "Godlike" a couple of weeks ago? Well, apparently CNN was also in a deep discussion and came up with similar results. Who's Ray Kurzweil? He's an auther and scientist who believes that immortality is a mere 20 years away. Now you can scoff at him all you want but keep in mind he is no qwack. He's a recipient of the Lemelson-MIT award. He's a 1999 National Medal of Technology award winner. He was inducted into the Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2002. He developed one of MIT's most successful inventions....it's a reading machine for the blind which can read any typeface. He predicted in 1990 that a computer would beat a human at chess for the Chess Championship of the World. In that same year, he also predicted a world wide computer system with everything connected. Keep in mind, in the computer word this was no far vision. A lot of others thought the same way. He also believes that there will be small "nanobots" which will correct the human body and sustain life. Exactly. He and I...two peas in a pod. Okay, keep in mind I never thought we would be Gods but that we'd just live forever. Now, in the end I don't agree with him. Why? It's not in our nature. We are animals and at the whim of nature like everything else. I like was Lee Silver said and I'll quote him here: "The instinct to preserve individuality, and to gain advantage for yourself and children, would survive any breakthrough into biological immortality. The gap between the haves and have-nots would widen and Kurzweil's vision of a united humanity would become ever more elusive." I would love to be immortal on one condition. As long as I was the only one. Imagine a world will only the rich lived forever and the poor didn't. Death was simply a sign of being poor.