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GOOGLE executive Ray Kurzweil takes 150 vitamins a day – the first step in his plan to cheat death.<\/p>\n
The 65-year-old futurist and inventor, who is director of engineering at Google, is using a “bridge to a bridge to a bridge” system he says will enable him to live long enough to see a biotechnology revolution.<\/p>\n
“I test myself on a regular basis, and it’s working,” Mr Kurzweil told Maclean’s .<\/p>\n
“All my measurements are in ideal ranges. I scan my arteries to see if I have plaque build-up, and I have no atherosclerosis. I come out younger on biological ageing tests. So far, so good.”<\/p>\n
But he says this vitamin program is not designed to last for a long time.<\/p>\n
“The goal is to get to bridge two: the biotechnology revolution, where we can reprogram biology away from disease,” Mr Kurzweil said.<\/p>\n
“Bridge three is to go beyond biology, to the nanotechnology revolution.”<\/p>\n
Bridge three would see small robots – or nanobots – augmenting people’s immune systems.<\/p>\n
“We can create an immune system that recognises all disease, and if a new disease emerged, it could be reprogrammed to deal with new pathogens.”<\/p>\n
Mr Kurzweil describes human biology as a “software process”.<\/p>\n
“You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We each have a fat insulin receptor gene that says, ‘Hold on to every calorie.’ That was a very good idea 10,000 years ago, when you worked all day to get a few calories; there were no refrigerators, so you stored them in your fat cells. I would like to tell my fat insulin receptor gene, ‘You don’t need to do that anymore’.”<\/p>\n
And he says that extended life would not see people living like “a typical 95-year-old for hundreds of years”.<\/p>\n
“The goal is not just to extend life. The idea is to stay healthy and vital, and not only to have life extension, but life expansion.”<\/p>\n
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