2045, it seems so far away...

     Lev Grossman's article, 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, contains many theories and thoughts of the future that causes his audience to think what may happen later on in life.  He starts the article introducing a high school student in 1965 by the name of Raymond Kurzweil who predicted that machines will become more inteligent than humans.  This caused a dramatic reaction from the audience wondering now if technology is getting to a point to where it is being heavily depended upon that we will live off of those machines.  Grossman states that whoever believes this theory must be a heavy supporter and believe it enough to where they are willing to give their own life to technology.  I don't really think there is much of an advantage with this other than living forever and saving the sickly from dying.  Do we really want to live forever? Do we really want to give in to machinery to where we actually become a machine?
     This article is similar to Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World which is also predicting what the future may be.  Bernard from Brave New World is similar to Raymond Kurzweil from Grossman's article because Bernard is making predictions of what the future may possibly be.  The technology that is portrayed in Brave New World is the technology that Kurzweil is visioning what may eventually take us over.  Grossman mentions that humans will be able to live healthy as we get older.  When Grossman states, "the mice didn't get better; they got younger" (Grossman 3),  he is basically saying that we will be able to live with healthy cells by removing the damaged cells.  The conept of potentially living forever and the rapid growth of technology and machines are the main points of this article.  To wrap this up, Grossman(well Kurzweil more like) states that technology is growing so fast that it will overcome the human race but we will have the ability of living forever and healthy.  Do we really want this to happen? We will have the ability of immortality however, we would not be able to function as an authentic human, but we will function as a machine.