You are cordially invited to join us for an exclusive screening of Transcendent Man at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, with a special, one time Q&A with luminary Ray Kurzweil and director Barry Ptolemy immediately to follow. The night offers the rare opportunity to see the groundbreaking film and step into the genius mind of Ray Kurzweil as he explains his controversial ideas in person.
General Admission: $45, includes screening and Q&A with Ray Kurzweil and director Barry Ptolemy.
VIP Package: $95. Includes admission, intimate pre-screening champagne reception with opportunity to meet Ray Kurzweil himself, and gift bag with Transcendent Man DVD, T-shirt, and poster as well as a signed copy of Kurzweil’s best selling book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.
VIP tickets are extremely limited; get yours before they sell out.
To purcahse tickets and view trailer:
http://transcendentman.com/
Could we really live forever? Could machines surpass us in intelligence? Could the day come when we will no longer be able to tell the difference between man and machine?
The answer, according to inventor, futurist, and New York Times best-selling author Ray Kurzweil, is a definitive yes, and that day may be sooner than we think. The compelling feature-length documentary film Transcendent Man, by director Barry Ptolemy, explores the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. Recently acclaimed on the cover of Time Magazine, Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future for more than three decades. No longer the far reaching fantasies of science fiction, Ray Kurzweil’s explorations may soon be our reality.
In Transcendent Man, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the globe as he presents the daring arguments from his best-selling book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and millions of times more powerful. This will be the dawning of a new civilization enabling us to transcend our biological limitations. In Kurzweil's post-biological world, boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death.
While Kurzweil maintains a radically optimistic view of the future, his opponents argue the potential dangers of allowing technology to thrust us into an uncontrollable world we have seen in films like The Matrix and AI: Artificial Intelligence. Transcendent Man explores the social and philosophical implications of these changes and the potential threats they pose to human civilization in dialogues with world leader Colin Powell; technologists Hugo deGaris, Peter Diamandis, Kevin Warwick, and Dean Kamen; journalist Kevin Kelly; actor William Shatner; and musician Stevie Wonder. Award-winning American composer Philip Glass contributes original theme music that mirrors the depth and intensity of the film.
