Ray Kurzweil is a renown inventor and a sometimes controversial futurist. Ray invented reading machines, OCR technology, scanners, and many other technologies we take for granted. He is credited with predicting when a computer would defeat a chess master and the explosion of the Internet.
Perhaps his most controversial prediction in the coming singularity in 2045. One predicted outcome of the singularity is AI will not only surpass biological intelligence but it will absorb it. AI, in the form of nanobots, will roam freely throughout our bodies essentially creating a human/AI hybrid. Our brain will become more AI than DNA and will operate in actual and virtual reality simultaneously while continuously joined to cyberspace. Ultimately, nanobots will replace all organic bodily material and a new and immortal species will arise.
Kurzweil gets a lot of support and skepticism for this 2045 prediction from the scientific community. Most often the scientific debate around this prediction feasibility and accuracy is whether technologies are advancing incrementally or exponentially.
Reference: Kevin Shapiro. (2005, December). This Is Your Brain on Nanobots. Commentary, 120(5), 64-68. Retrieved August 27, 2011, from Research Library. (Document ID: 938710071).
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