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It's going to come as such a shock to Ray Kurzweil when he dies.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The headline is wildly misleading here.

The concept basically states that due to medical and technological advances, we will soon reach a point where our life expectancies lengthen by more than one year per year, effectively giving us time back on the clock.

It's not physically moving to a previous time period, but rather it's a very awkward way of speaking about advancing medical technology.