Transcendent Man... and Popular Mechanics

Futurist Ray Kurzweil. Picture: Transcendent Man.com

If all goes according to plan, Popular Mechanics will host a series of intimate screenings of Ray Kurzweil’s Transcendent Man, the much-anticipated documentary film that portrays a future very different from one we might have imagined. Filmmaker Barry Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the globe as the renowned inventor and futurist shares his incredible vision of a world in which humans merge with machines, vastly extending our longevity and our intelligence... all within the next 30 years.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading futurists, with a 25-year track record of accurate predictions. He was called the “restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, and selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison”. Inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner and many other technology firsts, Kurzweil was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and has received the National Medal of Technology, the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), 19 honorary doctorates, and awards from three US presidents.

In other words, the man knows his stuff - which explains why we believe his ideas will resonate with Popular Mechanics readers everywhere. We’ll keep you informed about dates, places and times for the screenings of Transcendent Man, a documentary that will leave you breathless.

Watch the Transcendent Man film trailer...

 * Extracted from Transcendentman.com