How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity

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Meet Ray Kurzweil, who combines Moore’s Law with nanobots in a faux recipe to cheat death. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book checks in at 672 pages -- it's called The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.
Kurzweil's sequel from 2022 is called The Singularity Is Nearer.
Brian O'Keefe, "The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth," Fortune, May 2, 2007.
David Hochman, "Reinvent Yourself," Playboy, April 19, 2016.
Episode of Doug Henning's World of Magic, 1980.
Society for Cryobiology
Singularity University
Sarah Begley, "The Future of Food: Experts Predict How Our Plates Will Change," Time, October 9, 2014.
Alan Thompson, "Dr Ray Kurzweil: 2022-2023 Updates," LifeArchitect.ai
Eric Brende wrote a book that counteracts some of Kurzweil's absurdities. It's called Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology.
The Simplicity Collective is a good organization for exploring voluntary simplicity.

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