The human brain can certainly see what lies ahead, and our ability to do so helped make us successful in prehistory. "If you wonder why we have a brain, it's to predict the future," Kurzweil said ...

Immortality. It's an age-old idea that has plagued humankind for centuries. Many men over the years have sought to find some way to live forever, but futurist Raymond Kurzweil believes he may have ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil's goal is to not die at all. A far-fetched idea, and yet those who have followed Kurzweil's work over the decades know that many of his wild ideas and predictions come true.

In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).