Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil is a developer at google. He has published many books, the most important of which are "The Age of Intellegent Machines" which focuses on physical computing advancing to the ability to think for themselves, and the "Age of Spiritual Machines"where machines become better than humans on all fronts.

Raymond is a futurist like myself, I love his ideas of eternal mortal life, however I don't believe we will live forever like he does, because I understand that the universe will end, be it the heat death, or another model, he is not accounting for that. Regardless, his efforts at extending his own life, and reviving himself post-death are interesting to me.

He studies in his books the difference between mechanical and biological intelligence, the difference being what is known as "free will". While I disagree with the concept of free will, I can see how he might mistake that biological creatures have more control than physical computing devices.

However I found an article while searching for an image for this post and read up on some of his ideas for furthering biological advancement and human longevity.
http://mybusiness.com.au/experts/reprogramming-dna-raymond-kurzweil-on-technological-leaps-without-boundaries
It's really interesting to read his ideas, how technology is doubling or more yearly, and how he believes that bio-computing research will start to follow such a trend.