Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever - Paperback

by Ray Kurzweil (Author), Terry Grossman (Author)

"This visionary book provides a state-of-the-art synthesis of the latest evidence on aging and what you can do to live better and live longer. Highly recommend."--Dean Ornish, M.D., developer of the Opening Your Heart program

"A wonderful and exciting vision of what new advances in the biological and physical sciences will bring to the health and quality of human life."--George King, M.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School

Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology occur practically every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Fantastic Voyage shows us how we can use these new technologies to live longer than previously imaginable.

Author Biography

Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for more than six decades--longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a GRAMMY(R) Award for outstanding achievement in music technology. He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five books including The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind, both New York Times bestsellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.