climate change is everywhere, just like the ozon hole was back in the days.

Overpopulation is the main problem of mankind. all bad outcomes are linked to overpopulation and exponal growth.

Kinda like how that pesky household fusion energy is just "right around the corner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6IF3X-HeS0

That's an incredibly mundane distinction. Most things we call energy are just storing energy. Gas isn't energy until we get combustion.

Safe, convenient, and 100% reliable birth control that works for anyone who could get pregnant or cause pregnancy.

to be alive means to have death in mind to use time on earth properly.

"I'm 105. Does it show? The day comes when you've had enough. Your mind can be spent even if your body's not."

War is an extension of politics AND economics, Russia and Ukraine aren't the only ones involved in the conflict.

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I own one of his keyboards!

It's likely because Kurzweil is controversial in his views and his predictions are fairly widely known, thus the click bait title.

yeah, and what route are they going to use? Do they think that other non European countries will just let the jets fly over them with a sonic boom? That is some serious colonizer attitude.

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>A former Google engineer has just predicted that humans will achieve immortality in eight years, something more than likely considering that 86% of his 147 predictions have been correct

This is awful reasoning. He's got a good track record so let's just assume this is a good prediction.

Correction: the wealthy will achieve immortality. Us poors will not have it in our lifetime.

It doesn’t ‘need’ to be stored at high pressure at all. It just often is for convenience. Actually when under consideration for seasonal storage, using old salt mines or other mines with less permeable rock has been proposed and tested as a really cheap way to store a lot of H2.

Our physical bodies can't withstand effects of climate change. Capitalism signals it will be "immortality for some." AGI could take out humans before we improve on this. Efforts to mine the moon may start a war in space, which could result in Earth being destroyed.

It's not that simple to say "humans achieve immortality" when existential threats loom heavy.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/dustofoblivion123:

From the article:

"Compartir en Facebook Compartir en Twitter Compartir en Telegram Compartir en Whatsapp Enviar por email Tech. What is the 'digital curfew' in the U.S. and how will it curb underage social media use? Tech. Which countries have banned TikTok? Check the full list A former Google engineer has just predicted that humans will achieve immortality in eight years, something more than likely considering that 86% of his 147 predictions have been correct.

Ray Kurzweil visited the YouTube channel Adagio, in a discussion on the expansion of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing 'nanobots'.

These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages, making people immune to certain diseases such as cancer."

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1259fk7/former_google_engineer_predicts_humans_will/je354vo/

Actually the "google engineer" in the article is Ray Kurzweil, a man who's been a futurist for longer than most Redditors have been alive.

I don't always agree with his views and predictions, but he certainly has earned the right to be called more than "a google engineer."

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Free healthcare. Affordable, more widely used/invested in renewable energy. We literally have the power to do these things but you know…..money. That fake, worthless, piece of paper we invented

As cells reproduce, a certain structure called a telomere degrades. Eventually, when the telomeres are too short, the cells can't replace themselves because the failure rate becomes too high.

Weather control!!

I truly wonder what is holding up larger scaled greenhouses complete with LED lights. The verticle farms effectively being skyscrapers that are filled completely with crops and are climate change resistent. I understand that the economics of purchasing the land in a high density city to build a farm isn't pretty compared to spending a fraction of that to purchase a similar amount of total land in an area more built to suit said farming, but I think long term enough people in major city centers would pay good money for fresh produce year round. This plus significantly larger crop yields on paper of a near perfectly controlled environment to me screams a fast way to grow.

Fucking ouch!

They called him a "Google engineer."

Ray Fucking Kurzweil.