It is not a figment of imagination but it is the truth that human can become immortal as American scientist Ray Kurzwil asserted.
Ray Kurzweil claimed that humans could turn out be immortal within twenty years of time span through Nanotechnology and sophistication of how human body works. This theory is called the law of accelerating returns, Kurzweil claiming, will have the means to reprogram our bodies' stone age software that will pave the way for halting and then revising aging. Thus Nanotechnology will let us live for ever and humans will evolve into the cyborg & small machines implanted in their bodies will perform all important functions.
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