"We'll be able to connect parts of our brain where we do our thinking to the cloud just the way this does it," he says. "That's going to happen in the 2030s, and we will then be able to... I mean, this really amplifies our brain." He adds that you can actually use this without being connected to the cloud.
Would you want to live forever? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil discuss immortality, longevity escape velocity, the singularity, and the future of technology. What will life be like in 10 years?
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