In a previous blog, I mentioned Ray Kurzweil would be one of the most influential persons as to when extreme life extension arrives. As a result, he could be responsible for helping rescue millions from premature suffering and death. Ray doesn’t do aging research. He is an inventor and a thinking machine. In fact, he is described as “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes and “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal.

Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America”. Bill Gates called him the most accurate predictor of future of technologies.   

An independent, feature-length documentary was made about Kurzweil, his life, and his ideas called Transcendent Man. It recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Transcendent Man documents Ray's quest to reveal mankind's ultimate destiny and explores many of the ideas found in his New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity is Near. He movie includes his concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology.

I have known and respected Ray for a number of years. The reason I say he is integral to developing extreme life extension in our lifetimes is his Law of Accelerating Returns. Ray and his ten person research team compiled thousands of pages of documents to predict the future of technology by carefully applying the concept of exponential growth. He has been uncanningly accurate in the past.

Essentially, the technology we use to solve challenges such as aging and disease doubles in power every year and will continue to double even quicker as time passes. That means the incredibly sophisticated tools we use today will be over 1000 times more powerful in only 10 years and a billion times more powerful in 25 years.

So isn’t that destined to happen anyway? Sure. But Ray brings awareness to the concept and teaches the world that age reversal is possible in your lifetimes. That in turn motivates people like me to write about it and to encourage investments and donations to launch the research and finish it while you are still alive. It encourages students to enter the field, and it lights fires under the whole industry.

Once Transcendent Man gets distributed, it will add even more fuel to the fire. Moving research up by just one year could rescue up to 37 million dying people.

I had the good fortune to attend a private viewing last Thursday evening. When you see Transcendent Man, you will then understand the implications it could have on your health and longevity.