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What is Ray Kurzweil’s vision of the future of what it means to be human?

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In an essay that Ray Kurzweil wrote in 2018 for the Encyclopædia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence, he sees the convergence of humans and machines as a given that will have great benefits: “we will ultimately merge with our machines, live indefinitely, and be a billion times more intelligent…all within the next three to four decades.”