the Colbert Report | interview with host: Stephen Colbert
April 1, 2017
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broadcast: Comedy Central
television show title: the Colbert Report
season: no. 7
episode: no. 863
date: April 12, 2011
host: Stephen Colbert
guest: Rick Brookhiser
guest: Ray Kurzweil
watch | the interview
Ray Kurzweil believes man and machine are becoming one. Kurzweil predicts that people will merge with technology and become a billion times smarter by the year 2045. In this episode: comedian + host Stephen Colbert interviews inventor, author, and top futurist Ray Kurzweil on popular television talk show the Colbert Report.
the conversation | topics
From the interview w. Ray Kurzweil:
Host and Emmy Award winning comedian Stephen Colbert talks about the documentary film Transcendent Man profiling Ray Kurzweil — along with these modern topics about the near future:
- microscopic robots in the body
- uploading into a computer
- the singularity
- being someone else in virtual reality
- access to the world’s info on a mobile phone
quotes | from host Stephen Colbert
From the interview w. Ray Kurzweil:
- Millions of tiny nanobots in our blood system, is there any way that couldn’t turn into a horror movie?
- Will I have 6 pack abs in 2045?
- You tried to warn us Mr. Coffee — man and machine are soon becoming one.
- In the future will words be coming at us that fast?
on the web | pages
Transcendent Man | home
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— notes —
Stephen Colbert is Stephen Tyrone Colbert
Ray Kurzweil is Raymond Clyde Kurzweil