bit much. >> tom, chris, and katie holmes, i never miss one of those stories. >> her father should have got up on the stage and pulled her down by her ear. >> she was like america's sweetheart and then she was like under his wrap. >> but she's still cute and she's very talented, yeah. >> morgan, how long do you want to live? >> long as i can. >> three, two, one. >> hello? >> hello. >> how long do you want to live? 100 years? 500 years? how about 1,000 years? it sound crazy, but a growing number of people believe in the future death will become a thing of the past. >> how does it feel to be immort immortal? >> they believe that one day with a little luck, and more than a little science, you might actually be able to live forever. but is the dream of immortality

a real scientific possibility or more like science fikttion? -- more like science fiction? ♪ >> i'm planning to live indefinitely. >> indefinitely. >> forever. >> life is good. >> why would i ever want to see it end? >> we will be uploaded into computers. >> we will be substrate autonomous persons. >> beyond human. >> it's not rocket science. >> in 100 years -- >> 200. >> 500. >> 1,000 years. >> i see myself as almost the equivalent of god.

>> but maybe even better. ♪ >> i've been invited to a party tonight in california by a group of people who believe that they are on the path to living forever. i have no idea what to expect inside. but it should be interesting. >> how are you? >> the mcdonald's guy, right? >> yeah. how are you doing? i'm morgan. >> hi. i'm morgan. >> how are you, sir? >> hi. >> morgan. nice to meet you. you look very fit. >> yeah. i'm 50. reached my half century mark. >> the real question is can we live forever? is that a real possibility? >> i'm looking forward to a couple hundred years more. >> really? >> oh, absolutely. >> i think i can make it to 130. >> if that's 130, fantastic. 150, hallelujah. >> hopefully we'll be having my 200th birthday here one of these days.

>> said do you want to live forever? i said i don't know. check back in 1,000 years, ask me again. >> we live long enough we're going to see the emerging technologies that are going to give us open-ended life spans. >> foxy forever. going on. partying at 150. >> how are you, sir? >> that's some good-looking ribs right there. >> what are you guys doing to live forever? >> i try to keep to a paleo diet. >> milkshake. >> what about wine? >> four tablespoons? >> what are you doing right now? >> i take about 30 herbs a day. >> supplements. >> i take 25 vitamins. >> activators. i take those. >> i heard a lot of ideas tonight about how to live forever. and frankly, some of them are just bizarre. i mean, i had people talking about freezing my body, having robots put inside of me. but i have to say, i'm intrigued. and i definitely wouldn't mind sticking around for another 100

years. but where do i even begin? >> if i wanted to take that first step towards living forever, what would be the first thing i should do? >> the first step is to manage your lifestyle so you can add 5, 10, 15, 20 years to your life right now. it opens up your window of opportunity. that is the first thing to do. >> that's number one. >> yeah. >> number one, don't die. >> everybody is just talking about all these things they're doing to be healthier and live longer. >> would you like some chips? cookies? >> i'm good. >> you can't help but feel like you are a complete slacker and that i am somehow missing the boat on doing everything i can to extend my life. you also start to realize you're not a young pup anymore, especially now with my kid who's 6, you know, i want to be around for as much of his life as i possibly can. you know, i'll be the first to admit, i haven't lived the healthiest life at all. i've enjoyed myself. i've had a good time. so i'm heading to one of the foremost longevity centers in the united states to see a doctor dedicated to radical life extension. >> welcome to grossman wellness

center. go ahead and have a seat. >> now it's time to say what can i do to right some of the wrongs? >> hi, mr. spurlock. i'm paula. >> hi, paula. >> we'll take you back to see dr. grossman. morgan spurlock. >> hi. how are you? >> would you like a green tea or water? >> how are you today? >> i'm good. how are you? >> super, thanks? >> how long do you want to live? >> i talked to a lot of people about living forever. what would i need to do to potentially be able to live infinitely? >> the idea is to live long enough to take advantage of a technological change coming down the line. humans will have the ability to look at life expectancies of whatever they want. >> that's crazy. >> so how old are you? >> 43. >> and your diet? >> i mean, my diet's -- >> do you snack at all? >> who doesn't love a good cookie. pie. >> sugar is one of the biggest dietary health hazards.

>> apple pie. blueberry pie. >> we refer to sugar as the white satan. >> coconut cream pie. >> just say no. >> cut it out. >> cut it out completely. so that you get to 75 -- >> i could be the thin svelte specimen i'm meant to be. >> six-pack. >> right now i've got a 12-pack. 24-pack. >> we're going to be doing a number of tests on you to figure out how you can live long enough to live forever. >> great. >> we'll go do your physical exam. >> dr. grossman's battery of tests leave no stone unturned. >> f-e-o-l-p-z-d. >> are you sure you didn't memorize this? >> there's a lot of tubes going on. can see all the way across. >> you have nothing there. >> open wide and say ahhh. >> deep breaths with your mouth open. >> everybody come in. now we want to check his prostate. just kidding. >> again? >> nice. we're going to go a little faster. >> i must break you. >> we're going to go a little faster now. you doing okay? >> yeah. >> and we're going to go up a little more. >> how am i doing?

>> you're at 85% of your max heart rate. >> this is going to be the one that hurts right there. ah. >> deep breath in. i'm going to start taking pictures of your gallbladder, your bile ducts. >> after the treadmill, this is what i need. down time to unwind. >> hold it. >> take it easy. >> i'm going to come over to your right kidney. >> get to know my inner organs a little better. >> going to look at your pancreas now. you're going to hear a funny sound. >> that's the little dj who lives in my pancreas. >> if i want to live forever i've got to get as healthy as humanly possible. and fast. >> take a breath in and hold it. >> so dr. grossman will use these tests to create my own personal road map to longevity. >> this is going to look for any

plaque build-up inside the coronary arteries. >> i'm going to take a hair sample. >> what's this for? >> toxin in your body as well as nutrient level. >> what is this? >> this is going to check the blood flow to the brain. >> the next thing we're going to do is store your stem cells. >> but dr. grossman is not just focused on my current well-being. he's making a plan for the future. >> here goes the little biopsy. >> and freezing my stem cells for the medical breakthroughs to come. >> what will these be used for in the future? >> the stem cells you can use to print new organs like a new heart, new liver, any organ that you want. except a brain so far. >> the one that i need the most. >> this is going to test your body fat. >> it's like i'm getting jumpstarted. >> put your hand straight in in there. this is going to tell me how your blood pressure changes. how you react to stress. >> channel my inner snowman. >> you have about 1:30 to go. >> wow. this is a very strange journey i'm on right now i have to say. >> we're going to look at your tongue. >> what does my tongue say? >> looks like you may have some bacteria growing in your colon. when you get your stool test results you get to see if

there's anything in there. >> awesome. >> ready? >> are you okay? >> i'm good. feeling younger already. you see it in my face? look at my face. >> we're going to do your genetic testing. just spit into this. >> i've gone through so many tests today. >> one thing we do is check every single bodily function. >> hi, welcome to the age scan test. >> the next test will help determine my biological age, which is different than my chronological age. >> when you hear the tone press button 6 as quickly as possible. >> biological age is more about how well my body and mind are standing the test of time. >> okay. that was great. but you've got to do it faster if you want a good score. >> this is like crazy pressure. >> i'm 43 years old chronologically, but i could be older or younger than that

biologically. >> really attack that button. >> i'm missing the button. >> now get ready to check your muscle movement, speed, and coordination. be aggressive. [ beeping ] >> ah! that's terrible. >> this next test will check your lungs. pick up the tube, take in the deepest possible breath you can, and blow. >> i'm trying not to see the funny in that but it's funny. here we go. >> don't stop. keep blowing. more, more, more. until you just can't exhale anymore. push out every last bit of air. you should be gasping at the end. >> oh. >> you have now finished all the tests. >> ow. >> good-bye and good health. >> i'm not usually all that tired after a doctor's appointment. but today i'm completely exhausted. the hope is, you know, when i come back and get the information that i'll be armed with enough ammunition to get myself to the point where one day i can actually live forever.

i'm in golden, colorado. after undergoing an exhaustive battery of test at the grossman wellness center, i'm ready to get my results. >> how did i come out? >> here's your results. and we're going to review everything that we did.

>> that is bananas. look how thick that is. >> your report's color coded. green, that means it's very good. >> that's cool. >> red. those are the ones that we want to do something about. >> okay. >> we begin on page 3. and this was your physical exam. >> say ah. >> ah. >> everything was normal on your physical exam. >> great. >> the next test was when we put your hand in ice water and watched what happened to your blood pressure. your blood pressure went dangerously high. when you're under stress, meditation will be good for you. you want to be -- >> in a much more zen place. >> much more zen place. the next one was -- >> a lot of red on this page. >> this has to do with your body fat. >> what's my body fat? >> 26%. >> men should be between 12 and 20. you should lose about 18 pounds. >> so maybe i'm just really muscular. >> maybe you are. >> but it's covered by fat? >> that's right. >> in terms of other problems, you had elevated cholesterol. you could take a natural supplement called red yeast rice. >> deep breath in. >> your ultrasound results. we found you do have a build-up of some plaque in your arteries. i would like you to take a specific formulation that'll be on your supplement list. >> the liver. >> definitely not a liver model. >> there's some fat in your liver. maybe that one month you spent eating nothing but mcdonald's put a little fat in your liver. >> yeah.

>> if it goes on to fibrosis, that's irreversible. >> ready? >> the next test was the health of your cell membranes. >> it's like i'm getting jump-started. >> everything's fine there. we don't need to worry about that. we got you up on the treadmill. >> ah. >> and everything was completely normal. >> that's huge. >> your analysis, no abnormalities. >> great. >> so lots of green on this page. >> makes up for the other pages. >> that's right. next we looked at vitamins and minerals. >> a lot of red there. >> your vitamin d level is suboptimal. we'll have you taking about 4,000 units a day. you're going to be taking quite a bit. >> great. >> next we looked at the toxins. you had elevated levels of antimony, mercury and uranium. we'll put you on something called oral chelation. that should be enough to clean those out. now the biological age test. >> 34. >> you came out nine years younger than your chronological age of 43. so my goal is to keep you 34.

or younger. >> let's do that. >> one of the interesting tests is the length of your telomeres. they protect your chromosomes. think of your chromosomes as like shoelaces. the telomeres are like the little plastic caps on the end. the longer your telomere length the longer you live. i didn't like this test for you very much because you have below average telomere length. your telomere length is average for someone closer to 65 or 70. >> so my telomeres are like some grandpa right now. >> yeah. now, the last thing i want to talk to you about is your genomics test. you were at higher than average risk of type 2 diabetes. if you continue the way you've been eating, yes, you i will say will get type 2 diabetes. some of the other ones that we tested for, you're at increased risk for restless leg syndrome, ulcerative colitis, coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, gallstones. colorectal cancer, kidney disease and bipolar disease. that's just scratching the surface of what's available in your report. so if you can dig down and find out a lot of things about yourself. you can go to this. >> that's a pretty long list of illnesses and if these are

hereditary i might not be able to do anything about them. i'm starting to think i might have been happier not knowing. >> the first things i want you to take is power packs of multivitamins. fish oil capsules. pack in the morning, pack at night. here's your starter packs. these are the pow packs. the product to lengthen your telomeres. the chelation formula to get rid of the heavy metal toxin. glycene. this is temporary. the blended amino acid for vitamin d. ubiquinol. red yeast rice. and it's going to be two. >> okay. >> we've identified some risks. we're going to treat those risks. congratulations. >> thank you. >> you have a very realistic chance to live a lot longer. >> step one. >> step one. >> thank you, doctor. >> my pleasure. take care, morgan. >> i can honestly say that was one of the most awesome and frightening meetings i've ever had in my life. awesome in the fact that suddenly you've got all this information about your life and frightening at the same time because you've got all this information about your life.

i'm not denying there was good news but all you hear is the terrible stuff. is then you're given a program to try and fix it and the tools to do it with, and now the question is can you? ♪ >> armed with my test results, i'm ready to face the first day of the rest of my life. and since i want to live forever, that's the start of a intense regimen. diet, exercise, more exercise, supplements, yoga. am i going to have to keep this up forever? that's beginning to sound like a very long time.

at the grossman wellness center i was put on a path to longevity. my goal --

>> start exercising more, increase my supplement intake. >> to stay healthy and young so i'll actually still be around to take advantage of those future breakthroughs that can keep me alive even longer, maybe even indefinitely. and it turns out the future may be closer than we think. at the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine a team led by dr. anthony atala is doing something that was once pure fantasy -- growing human body parts right in the lab. >> one of the strategies we use is to take a very small piece of tissue, less than half the size of a postage stamp, you can grow those cells outside the body and we use those cells to three-dimensionally reconstruct the tissue of interest.

>> the next thing we're going to do is store your stem cells. >> remember those stem cells that i had stored? well, if i'm ever in need of an organ, they might just come in handy. >> a stem cell has the ability to become many other cell types. a heart cell or a liver cell. >> kidney cells, bladder cells, skin cells, heart cells, lung cells. you name it. >> so one cell becomes a universal donor. >> next step, engineering the body part. in one of dr. atala's latest breakthroughs in organ engineering is truly groundbreaking. printing. yes, printing body parts. >> the first printer we used was actually typical desktop printer. and instead of using ink, we would just use cells. >> miraculously, using that modified inkjet printer, the same one you might have in your home or office, wake forest scientists printed out a two-chamber mouse heart with a heartbeat and all. >> we now have developed much more advanced printers. >> dr. atala's lab has printed kidneys, skin, ears, fingers. and this is just the beginning. >> the goal is to be able to print all organs so that we can put them into patients and maybe even someday print them inside the patient. >> the work dr. atala's doing is truly remarkable. >> welcome to san francisco international airport. >> but why stop there? why not begin fixing health problems where many of them start, in our dna? >> one of the things people talk about all the time is if you have a health problem, you have an issue, it's because it's in your dna. it's in your genes. >> remember that genetic testing i did at dr grossman's office? >> atrial fibrillation.

gallstones. >> he did that test to see what genetic illnesses i was predisposed to, to see what kind of things might shorten the length of my life no matter what i did. >> what if you could fix that problem, correct it as an adult or correct it before you're even born? >> turns out in the future even the information hard wired into our genetic code will be something you can change. >> how are you doing? >> hey, morgan. good to see you. >> austin heinz is the ceo of cambrian genomics. a startup. but he's also the leading innovator and a bona fide bio hacker. >> you're literally printing genes here? >> we're literally printing life. >> so if there's some gene that's messed up in my body that may lead to an early demise -- >> we make the dna to fix the mistake. >> that's crazy. >> so you can take out what's existing and put in what you want.

>> dna is the building block of all life. nothing living on earth exists without it. it's the unique genetic code that makes me me and you you. but our dna also contains mistakes, or mutations. and just one of those mutations can cause anything from a minor health problem to a deadly disease. austin is creating technology today that could change all of that in the future. >> so we'll look at your 23 m.e. test results. >> okay. >> other than risk for getting type 2 diabetes, you scroll down here. inherited conditions. morning spurlock has one copy of a mutation in the hexagene. you do carry the recessive gene for tay-sachs. >> okay.

and what is tay-sachs? >> tay-sachs is a disease that's basically losing the ability to function cognitively and results in death by the age of about 4 years old. onset is about six months. >> wow. >> so if your partner has it and you were to have another child -- >> my kid could have it. >> yeah. >> how would i change that gene? >> we'll look at the hexasequence here and look at the particular mutation. here's the error. >> wow. >> literally that's the one letter that's wrong? >> yes. it's a screw-up. we're going to print out the correct copy. >> that's nuts. how would i get that into my body to fix that problem?

>> there's viruses. there's hijacking your immune system. but currently the technology is not i think really good enough. we need to make ways that are much safer, that don't result in problems like your immune system going crazy -- >> shutting down? >> exactly. we don't want that. >> no. >> we're going to show you how we make the dna. all life comes from four chemicals. there's an a, c, there's a t, and there's a g. we take code sent us and we turn it into physical a, t, c, g strands that can be run inside of cells. >> synthetic dna is already being used experimentally in gene therapy to treat or prevent disease. but costs of the current methods are extremely high. it can cost billions to correctly print human dna. >> hansen, if you want to turn on the laser. >> with his dna laser printer, austin hines has figured out a way to do it on the cheap. >> the laser, which is ejecting the good sequence of dna into a collection plate. >> with each shot of the laser -- >> is $100. >> falling prices mean the technology to design and print manmade dna could become easily available to anyone who wants it. paving the way for widespread biohacking. >> would you ever hack your own genes? >> i would definitely hack my sperm. nobody wants to have a kid tell you why do i have this and why do i have that?

>> is that with what my kid's going to say to me when he's 10? >> you're blameless because the technology wasn't there. >> as a society, as a species, we're going to evolve and there's going to be an ethical responsibility we have to our kids to make them healthy. >> yeah. >> you know, a whole generation that that basically we would betray if we didn't help them. basically that's cruel. >> what are the scary aspects of where this could potentially go? >> i think it will get very hot in the next few years in editing genomes for babies. >> where you'll be able to go in and kind of just order the perfect child? >> yes. we could potentially see like an arms race among families -- >> to create the fastest, biggest, strongest, smartest. >> yeah. well, let's take out the correct copies of dna. >> this is incredible.

so for me to live forever, i need to hack my dna. >> we will eventually be able to write the code not only to fix our current mistakes but also to fix mistakes as we age. and that's going to be critical to living forever. there you go. >> that's nuts. >> correct copies of your dna. so if you want to access any of these sequences you'll break the foil with the tip, add some liquid. >> brand new genome, just add water. that is remarkable. >> it's kind of like evolution. >> are you guys playing god? >> we are god. >> really? >> just like that, boom, they hacked my genetic code. and here, the ability to fix my problems. now i just have to wait up for technology to catch up with this so i can put it in my body safely. but the good thing is believe it or not, this will last a million years. much longer than you or me. or maybe not.

i've been struggling to keep up with my regimen in a quest to live forever. i'm putting a lot of energy into preserving my physical body for as long as i can, but nobody's going to live forever. what i want to know is can we outlive our bodies. >> i'm going to go see a guy, names ray kurzweil, who's one of the leading futurists in the world who has some ideas about this. hey, how are you? >> how are you doing? >> i'm morning. great to meet you. should i take my shoes off? >> sure.

would you like coffee? because i -- >> okay. >> ray is an accomplished inventor and currently chief engineer at google. he's been called the most radical futurist on earth. >> caffeine is good. it's good for your brain. >> today he's going to tell me how if i just live long enough i might be able to cheat death altogether. >> part of my longevity plan is i'm taking supplements. i'm taking about 26 a day. >> okay. >> how many do you take? >> 150 pills. >> 150 pills? >> yeah. >> yeah. i got to tell you, i'm a fan of chocolate at breakfast. good way to start the day. >> you can have fun and be healthy. >> so what is your goal with everything you're doing? >> well, i'd like to live to tomorrow. and i feel tomorrow i'll feel the same way. and i think we have the opportunity to live long enough to live indefinitely. so that's my goal. >> so is death not a good thing? >> i think death is not a good thing. do you think it's a good thing? people only want to die if they're suffering. if they're in good shape, people have aspirations. and up until recently, there was nothing credible that we could do to circumvent death.

so we did the next best thing and rationalize that it's a good thing. >> but according to kurzweil there will soon be a way to circumvent death. >> there's some salmon. >> and the key to mortality lies in technology. >> medicine has undergone a grand transformation enabled by the genome project to where it is now an information technology. information technology grows exponentially. and that's quite radical. this is several billion times more powerful than the computers i used when i was an undergraduate. this amount of computation will be the size of a blood cell in the 2030s. it will be a billion times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller in 25 years. that's the radical implication. >> so there will be little robots swimming in our bodies? >> right. little computerized device

that's will augment the immune system. >> they'll get cancer cells, go after leukemia. >> right. >> according to ray, we'll use these nanobots to accomplish a seemingly impossible feat, transferring the entire contents of our brains to a computer. >> in the future you think we'll be able to upload our thoughts? >> i think we're already there because our thinking is augmented with our technology. we now wear this kind of on our bodies. and this is intelligent. you can translate languages. you can access all of human knowledge. it is an indirect connection from our brain to the cloud. 100 years from now people will think it was amazing when we went throughout the day without backing up our mind file. if our thinking is partly biological and partly nonbiological, the nonbiological part is expanding exponentially. it's doubling in power every year. according to my calculations, by 2045, we will multiply our intelligence a billionfold. the nonbiological part is going to dominate. >> that's amazing. >> that's such a profound transformation that we borrowed this metaphor from physics.

>> that's the singularity. >> right. >> kurzweil's calculations predict the singularity will hit in 2045, a time when man and machine will be so connected that we will be able to transcend the limits of biology once and for all. >> could i ultimately end up being another person, looking like another person, becoming someone else with the same memories i have of my life? >> well, we're going to be spending more and more of our time in virtual environments. one of the advantages of virtual realities, you can be someone else. it's going to be very realistic in the future. >> so if now i've shed this body but that's backed up, where will that be downloaded into? >> there's lots of scenarios where you can create a virtual body in physical reality, let's say with a swarm of nanobots. >> will you have the ability to bring, say, loved ones back like my grandmother or your father? >> i have a project to bring back an avatar of my father. i have all of his correspondence and letters to my mother, videos and pictures and so on. we can access his dna at his

gravesite. so if you imagine a future a.i., artificial intelligence, that's very, very smart, can take all this information and create an avatar, that avatar would pass a test being indistinguishable from the original frederick kurzweil to people who knew him. >> is it ethical? people question the ethics around scientific advancement for years. >> it is ethical to overcome human suffering. if you have a better treatment for cancer, is that ethical? i mean, nobody debates that. >> yeah. any advice for me as i'm going down my path to longevity? >> you've got a very good shot, you know, 15 years from now getting the benefit of the full maturation of the biotechnology revolution. and that's just a bridge to nanotechnology and ultimately go out enough decades, being able to back up who you are and expand who you are. i think you're on a very good path to do that. >> ray. thank you, ray. an absolute pleasure. [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets.

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you were supposed to make a right, but you made a left. and it's ok. you found your way. on a personal note, as i was counseling the two of you... everyone i've talked to is a true believer in the power of technology to radically extend our life spans. but how do they know and could they be wrong?

i'm wondering if i'm getting ahead of myself. can technology really help us live forever? >> pleasure to meet you. >> jaron lanier is a virtual reality pioneer who helped create the first avatar. but he has a surprising message. technology might not be the key to immortality. >> so as a virtual reality guru, what are your thoughts on this idea that we will one day be able to merge ourselves with technology to live forever? >> my old buddy ray kurzweil talks about uploading people into virtual reality. and you know, having built a lot of virtual reality machines, it's a great place to visit. it's not someplace you want to live really. especially not forever. right now, we don't know how the brain encodes information. oh, yeah, but sure we'll be able to download the brain. i mean, there's a bit of hubris there. we have a lot more to learn about the brain. so hypothetically. but you know, if we're talking about that already, we're being kind of nutty. >> the year 2000. >> and maybe jaron has a point.

>> look at the future. >> after all -- >> electronic written communication. >> supersonic dishwashers. >> lots of technologies haven't quite worked out the way the futurists thought they would. >> the digital world has spawned what's basically a new religion. there's nothing wrong with it. i don't feel it's my place to judge someone else's religion. >> so when you hear of the singularity and hear people continually talk about it, you see that much more as kind of a religious movement versus a technological movement? >> it's really similar to traditional religion. it's this notion that we have the secret to control death, to cure death, you can live forever because you'll be uploaded into the machine. if you miss out, oh, my god, then you're going to be left to die and you won't be uploaded

when the singularity happens. >> yeah. >> you know, it's in the eye of the beholder. if you want to believe in it, i can't tell you not to. >> yeah. >> maybe it is more a matter of faith rather than fact whether technology will lead to my living forever. >> we're going to be spending more and more of our time in virtual environments. my brain will be partly biological and non-biological. >> hypothetically. >> but jaron got me thinking, what will it really mean if some of these predictions do come to pass? >> all the virtual reality experiences i've had have been very kind of clunky and gamy. the question i have is through something like virtual reality can you find something that's as believable an experience as real life? >> the stanford virtual human interaction lab is the state-of-the-art facility housing some of the most immersive and advanced virtual reality technology available. >> this is the multisensory room that we're very excited about here. >> reporter: director jeremy bailenson and his team are exploring just how real a virtual experience can be. >> that is the coolest thing. >> so the question is does virtual reality feel real and is it real enough that it's going to change your behavior and psychologically affect you? >> yeah. >> and i think the first world we're going to put you in will answer that question. >> how does that feel? >> it's like i hear your voice but there's nobody here. this is so like the matrix right

now. >> what i want you to do is look down. do you see that piece of wood? >> yeah. >> you know there's no hole in this floor. >> yeah. >> but your body should be telling you that you're actually standing on the edge of a cliff. >> that is crazy. >> walk out over that plank and stop when you're halfway across. >> okay. >> whoa. now stop. >> yeah. >> and now i want you to take a step off. >> okay. this is crazy. you're going to give me a heart attack. i'm like sweating. i'm sweating. >> yeah. that's hard to do. >> i'm completely sweating. >> whoa, whoa! >> great job. you did it. >> my heart is racing. >> you know there's no hole in the floor. but your brain can't feel. it feels real. walk right through that block. walk into it. this experiment, you're going to fly like superman.

>> okay. >> put your arms over your head and you're going to take off. point to where you want to go. >> that's incredible. >> get up a lot of speed and go right through the side of a building. >> awesome. >> whoa. i'm drowning. come here, come here. whoa. i'm swimming inside him. >> to see like all the fish and to be in this place like -- it feels spectacularly immersive. every classroom in the world should have one of these. wow. wow. it's like coming back to reality is suddenly a very different experience. i'm feeling a disconnect from reality. you kind of want to stay in. >> the nature of addiction with this is something we think about a lot. >> i could play with this all day. >> there's an article hypothesizing that birth rates in japan are going down because of virtual girlfriends. men have no interest in sex anymore. i believe vr should be vr and physical life should be physical life. >> so could i theoretically have

the ability in the future like to upload myself into an environment like this? >> turns out we've actually spent some time building you. look around. what are you seeing here? >> i've got such a nicer apartment in the virtual world. >> this is the 3-d model that it took us about 15 minutes to make of you. >> wow. look at that handsome guy. yeah. feeling it. yeah. >> are you ready for your aged self? >> i'm ready. time is not my friend. i'm shaped like a penguin. >> and had supersize me gone on for six months this is what you'd look like. >> that is fantastic. >> all right. done.

i will go to the gym. i promise. >> so as that gets more real, how long until i'll be able to create an avatar like this of myself and theoretically live forever in technology? >> take you out of there. >> okay. >> if you would have asked me five years ago, i would have said centuries. ray kurzweil believes it's decades. the answer in my opinion is somewhere in between. >> so neighbor in my life? >> every year i feel like that's less far off. >> yeah. >> here's what i think we will able to do in your lifetime. we will able to capture the virtual morning that will live forever that others can't tell isn't you. god forbid if you die your legacy will live on even if your biology isn't. >> my grandkids would be able to talk to that avatar. >> sit on your virtual lap, have you say their names in stories that you tell. this technology is coming as a freight train. you'll be able to work after you're dead. >> pay for my kid. >> that's right. >> if there was ever a question that going into the virtual world would create some kind of psychological or physical response -- >> whoa, woe. >> -- the answer to that is yes. the ability to create an avatar of myself that i could have this living legacy i'm fascinated by. >> welcome to los angeles. 57 minutes. >> wouldn't you love to have a conversation with your great, great grandfather? i know i would have. now i've just got to find a place to get that done. >> what we're planning to do today is something we have never

done before. a new full-body, full-resolution, all points of view digital hologram of yourself. >> really? >> 50 simultaneous cameras. 6,000 l.e.d.s. high resolution geometry scan. >> i am literally the real guinea pig. >> if you're up for that. >> i'm in. i'm game. >> and lights. okay. open your eyes. >> wow. wow. >> okay. ready? >> yeah. >> three, two, one. >> hello. >> hello. >> is it okay if i ask you some questions? >> sure. >> who are you? >> i'm morgan spurlock. >> tell me what your childhood was like. what's on your mind? >> three, two, one, go.

so i'm back at usc. it's been a couple months since i was on the light stage getting my this captured.

so i'm back at usc. it's been a couple months since i was on the light stage getting my this captured. and now i'm going to go inside and actually meet my digital

avatar. welcome to the future. >> hello. >> so bananas. >> how's it going? >> i feel great. i'm excited to be talking to you. >> are you really me? i mean, am i really there? >> yeah. you're really here. >> it really does look like me. >> if only you had exercised more. >> so this is how it's going to

be? >> i could look so much better if you'd have exercised more. >> come on, man, i'm trying my best. >> this -- >> acts like me too. idiot. >> almost a double chin, see? even in a hologram, this is what you gave me. >> let me see you turn around. >> you want to check this out? take a look at this. >> just when you thought it couldn't get more perfect, suddenly it did. >> all right, morning. let's see how much like me you really are. i'm going to ask you some questions that only i would know the answers to. >> sure, go ahead and answer some questions. >> what's your earliest memory? >> i think it was a few months before i turned 3 years old. and we had just moved to our new house in beckley, west virginia. and i remember moving men unloading the truck, and i can see myself walking across the lawn toward the moving truck. that's my earliest memory that i have. >> wow. and what's the happiest you've ever been? >> probably the happiest day of my life was the day -- it was the happiest and the scariest. the day my son was born i was ecstatic. and then so incredibly frightening that now i have to take care of this thing for the rest of my life. because suddenly you're not the most important person in the world anymore.

now this little person, this little man suddenly means more than anything. that was probably the happiest and scariest i've ever been. >> wow. >> so why do you want to live forever? >> i don't know if i want to. i mean, are we really meant to live forever? >> i think -- that's a good question. i think as cool as this is it's still not as cool as actually talking to a real person. this is great. but the actual feeling you get from connecting with another person, from touching their hand, from kissing their skin, from looking into their eyes is something we'll never be able to truly replace. so this is an incredible thing that we've accomplished, but it's still not quite as good as the real thing. >> so any final words of wisdom? >> the more important thing, we actually get to go out in the real world, see what it's still all about. you is this do that. because i'm stuck in here forever. so please, go. enjoy while you can. >> i will. thank you. >> good luck, handsome. i'll see you soon. ♪

>> so far i've stuck to my lifelong regimen, and i intend to keep doing it. ultimately, who's to say how long i'll live. maybe this will all pay off and i'll live another 100 years or more. but living longer doesn't necessarily mean living better. maybe how we spend those years is what really counts. making the most of the time that we have no matter how long that may be. ♪ >> wa! >> now i'm going to ride my bike. i'm going to get on my skateboard. whoosh. whoosh. i'm just going for a walk. i'm just going for a walk. oh, what time is it? hmm.

oh, i'm running a little late. i better go. doo, doo, doo. taxi! taxi! [ speaking in a foreign language ] ♪ ♪ ♪