Okay, technology is great, but it is not the elixir of immortality.

That might be the case.

According to a future specialist, humans may be able to acquire immortality within the next eight years.

Obviously, this is only an estimate and not an actual timeline, but it’s still really fantastic and very near to happening.

This is what Ray Kurzweil, an apparent future specialist, believes after several huge successes in the past.

For example, he predicted in 1990 that by the year 2000, a computer would be able to beat the world’s top chess player.

Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov in chess in 1997, just seven years after his forecast.

Okay, one accurate answer may have been a fluke, but he’s done it twice!

He has previously stated that mobile, portable technologies such as smartphones will be the world’s future.

That is very accurate, given that you are most likely using yours right now to read this.

Anyway, those aren’t his only prophecies that have come true; he’s also made big predictions about artificial intelligence and human immortality.

Kurzweil predicts that by 2030, an AI will have passed the Turing Test, which determines whether robots can demonstrate intelligent ‘human-like’ behavior.

We’d say they’re almost there, given that AI devices are being designed to look like people and can have a conversation very well.

But will humans ever be immortal?

According to the experts, it will happen by the end of 2030, which is extremely soon.

But who would want to live indefinitely?

“2029 is the consistent date I have predicted for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and thus achieve human levels of intelligence,” he told Futurism.

“I have set the date 2045 for the ‘Singularity’, which is when we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion-fold by merging with the intelligence we have created.”

During a podcast with physicist Lex Fridman, he stated that he believes we would be able to ‘increase human life expectancy’ by more than a year per year, and I think we will get there [to immortality] by the end of this decade’.

So, how would we go about doing this?

Kurzweil has proposed that it may be done by nanobots traveling via our blood vessels, which is a bad idea.

These nanobots will apparently monitor our progress while also transferring thoughts and memories to the cloud.

I believe we’ll be OK as long as no one can hack that cloud!

Do you believe it will happen, or is it a fantasy?

We’ll simply have to wait and see how science develops.