A conversation with Newton-based inventor, author, and computer scientist, who believes technology will help humans extend their lives—a lot sooner than you might think.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil speaking in New Delhi in 2012 (Photo by Kaushik Roy/The India Today Group via Getty Images) In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed ...

Humans have pondered this question since the times of the ancient Greeks, and the Myth of bronze automaton Talos — forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in ...

Humanity has heard bold promises about conquering aging before, but few are as provocative as the claim that people could effectively move backward in time within the next four years. At the center of ...

To prepare students for a world so saturated with technology, it has arguably never been more important to speculate on the possibilities of our future, and how we can prepare for it. In business, ...

Futurist and tech inventor Ray Kurzweil is the co-founder of Beyond Imagination. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League Ray Kurzweil, a renowned inventor and futurist, has long ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil's goal is to not die at all. A far-fetched idea, and yet those who have followed Kurzweil's work over the decades know that many of his wild ideas and predictions come true.

Kurzweil’s Singularity is somewhat hard to pin down by design, its name stolen from the spookiest frontiers of knowledge. In mathematics, it refers to when the model falls apart; in astrophysics, it ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Photograph by Alana Paterson Ray Kurzweil's eerily prescient predictions about AI are underpinned by a simple line chart. The chart, tracking the amount of computing power ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed from the world of ...