Wow, I had no idea Kurzweil worked at Google. That's a smart guy - they must be the least impressive bullet on his resume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

Step 1: Write a book that promises baby boomers they will never die.

Step 2: Profit.

Reymont, I don't know if you're being facetious or what, but Ray Kurzweil has done many fantastic things in many fields. He basically invented optical character recognition, made the first reading machine for the blind, was a key innovator in digital synthesis -- a lot of modern music relies heavily on technology he developed.

Hey Eli -- Kurzweil's book on the singularity (which I think is kinda new age b.s.) came out in 2005. You're a little late.

Mick Jagger made an action movie about this very thing, it was called FreeJack