ray kurzweil believes it's decades.wer 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

ray kurzweil believes it's decades.r 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 gr

ray kurzweil is an interesting example of somebody that was able to do all of this record-keeping on himself far earlier than the rest of us just because he was really good at computer science. this is an example of something that was seen as a strange behavior of and when kurzweil was doing it in the 70s detailed record personal record-keeping now something we can all do but the bigger shock i had was when i listen to gus kant a former chief intelligence officer for the cia get on stage and talk a little bit about how scared he was of the potential government abuse of the metadata. it really just showed me that no one is in charge of the fact that we now create information like we do. we have that illusion that we are in charge of it but that illusion is temporary. eventually eventually his pass to all of sudden pass to alternate changes everyone's decision-making process. >> host: i want to and briefly talking about future is in general because you are a futurist and i wasn't aware that a lot of large corporations use futurist's consultants. >> guest: they do. i consider myself mor