TRANSCENDENT MAN chronicles the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist that presents his bold vision of the Singularity, a point in the near future when technology will be changing so rapidly, that we will have to enhance ourselves with artificial intelligence to keep up. Ray predicts this will be the dawning of a new civilization in which we will no longer be dependent on our physical bodies, we will be trillions of times more intelligent and there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. Human aging and illness will be reversed; world hunger and poverty will be solved and we will ultimately cure death.

Actors:

Stevie Wonder,Ray Kurzweil,William Shatner

Description:

NCM Fathom, Ptolemaic Productions, and Therapy Studios present “Transcendent Man: The Future of Humanity” live from New York on July 14. 2011. The live event will begin at 8:00p Eastern/7:00P Central/6:00p Mountain/Rebroadcast to 8:00p Pacific. This compelling live event expands upon the ideas featured in Barry Ptolemy’s Transcendent Man, the film about the life and ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil--one of the world's leading futurists, with a twenty-five year track record of accurate predictions. Called the "restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." For more than three decades, inventor, futurist, and New York Times best-selling author of “The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology,” Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. Ray, along with an all star panel of thought leaders and celebrities will discuss many of the ideas presented in Transcendent Man.. In the film, Kurzweil predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and millions of times more powerful. This will be the dawning of a new civilization enabling us to transcend our biological limitations. In Kurzweil's post-biological world, boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death.