Transcendent Man (2009)
The compelling feature-length documentary film, by director Barry Ptolemy, chronicles the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. For more than three decades, inventor, futures, and New York Times best-selling author Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future.
- Date of release
- 2009-04-25
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (43)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Documentary, Science Fiction
- Director
- Robert Barry Ptolemy
Casting
- Tom Abate — Self
- Hugo De Garis — Self
- Peter Diamandis — Self
- Ray Kurzweil — Self
- Kevin Kelly — Self
Interesting facts
Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor, futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. In the film, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around his world as he discusses his thoughts on the technological singularity, a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in artificial intelligence, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine civilization.
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