Ray Kurzweil Outlines the Coming Biomedical Revolution [Video]

Will we live longer lives in the future? According to Ray Kurzweil, it's only a matter of time until technology begins successfully tackling age-related disease—and life expectancy grows longer and longer. At some point, technology will annually add more than a year to our life expectancy—allowing us to indefinitely increase lifespans, and perhaps eventually live as long as we want.

How will this happen? We’re now learning to reprogram biology to cure disease and repair the body. This will accelerate in coming decades and be followed by the nanotechnology revolution.

Through nanotechnology, we’ll be able to “transcend the limitations of biology” by using nanobots in the body to combat anything from pathogens to cancers. Nanobots will even perform microsurgery. What seems like science fiction today may be science fact tomorrow as science and technology converge to accelerate progress in these areas more rapidly than expected.