Transcendent Man
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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director | Barry Ptolemy |
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editor | Doobie White Meg Decker |
events | death |
musicBy | Philip Glass |
producer | Barry Ptolemy Felicia Ptolemy |
productionCompany | Ptolemaic Productions Therapy Studios |
publisher | Docurama |
theme | documentary independent |