Two men, one topic: dying. Let’s forget for a moment that both of them are older gentlemen, because this isn’t about everyday life. Rather, it’s about two people who want to think ahead and defeat death itself. When it comes to Ray Kurzweil, Google’s techno-futurist, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. In the recently published sequel to his book “The Singularity is Near” (published in German under the title “Humanity 2.0”), which was published almost twenty years ago, he no longer sees a single reason why humans should, thanks to the imminent merger with artificial intelligence should worry about its extinction. Man transcends himself and lives on. The flesh is weak, the information is strong. The metamorphosis begins with the human-machine interfaces that are already established today, and with memory-grabbing nanobots, the natural product spirit finally enters the realm of immortal – and freely manipulable – posthuman existence. This is Kurzweil as we know it: utopian, obsessive, transgressive.
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