"Google engineer predicts human immortality by 2030 through nanotechnology"
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted that humans will achieve immortality by 2030 through the use of nanotechnology to fend off aging and illness with microscopic robots sent to repair our bodies on a cellular level. Kurzweil has accurately prophesied technological achievements in the past, inspiring a cult following among other future-thinkers. He claims an 86% accuracy rate for his many technological prognostications and has previously suggested that, in less than a decade, humans will have created technology to fend off aging and illness with microscopic robots.
