Could We Someday Live Forever? With Ray Kurzweil

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Would you want to live forever? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil discuss immortality, longevity escape velocity, the singularity, and the future of technology. What will life be like in 10 years?

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0:00.0	But would you live forever if you had the choice?
0:03.1	I would like to live to tomorrow.
0:06.4	Okay.
0:08.3	Okay.
0:11.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:13.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:19.8	StarTalk begins right now.
0:24.0	This is StarTalk.
0:26.4	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
0:28.3	your personal astrophysicist.
0:30.5	And today, we're going to tackle a subject
0:33.0	that's on everybody's mind
0:35.1	at some point in their life.
0:37.9	And for some people, it's on their minds all the time.
0:40.8	And it has to do with longevity, your health, longevity,
0:45.0	and especially immortality.
0:47.7	And what any of that has to do with technology
0:51.9	and the pace that technology has been unfolding, not only over the past century,
0:58.4	but especially over the past decades. And there's one person who comes to mind as a world expert
1:04.7	on this who's probably done more thinking on these topics than anyone else ever born,
1:10.8	and there's none other than Ray Kurzweil.
1:13.3	Ray, welcome to StarTalk.
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