Scientific research on the topics of life, intelligence, and matter is currently yielding revolutionary results that challenge our understanding of the nature of the human body and mind. Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil derives from potential technological applications of these findings a vision of a near future in which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence in all areas, where humans merge with intelligent technology, diseases and aging are combated through the use of genetic engineering and nanomedicine, and ultimately no one has to die a natural death anymore. What of these visions is science, what are promises of a religious nature, and what is pure science fiction? Writer Tobias Hülswitt and physicist Roman Brinzanik have conducted interviews with prominent scientists, including a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.