In 20 Years, We Will All Be Virtual-Sexing Cyborgs That Live Forever

Ray Kurzweil, author, engineer, and all-around Science Guy (this is actually an academic laurel one can earn a la “Juris Doctor”), has lately taken to prophesying about the brave new robot-controlled future ahead of us.  But it’s OK that the future will belong to robots.  Because the robots… will be us.

“I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies’ stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing. Then nanotechnology will let us live for ever.”

Ray Kurzweil is 61, so you can imagine he’s leaning pretty hard on that Centrum Silver and throwing down some serious diet-and-exercise game right now.  Otherwise, there will not be a more pissed-off man on his deathbed.  But living forever is just one of the advantages of becoming cyborgs.  There’s also the “virtual sex“…  

“If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain signals and take us wherever we want to go. Virtual sex will become commonplace. And in our daily lives, hologram like figures will pop in our brain to explain what is happening.”

Eventually you’ll be able to upgrade to a model that includes Virtual Spooning and Virtual Just Talking About Like What We Want To Do With Our Lives And Stuff.  Don’t let Tom yell at you that it’s his turn in the Virtual Sex Chamber.  You can’t rush these things.

Other Ray Kurzweil predictions:

• Four hour breath-holding.
• Olympian-speed sprinting for fifteen minutes straight.
• Heart attacks no longer a big deal.
• Writing a book “within minutes.”
• Coors Wide Mouth Can with wider mouth than science currently allows.
• Grand Theft Auto 5.

Source: The Telegraph.