With companies like Google creating self-driving cars and augmented-reality glasses, futurist Ray Kurzweil's predictions are starting to sound much more realistic.

Kurzweil, cofounder of Singularity University, became famous for creating the first text-to-speech software. Forbes called him "the ultimate thinking machine."

With technology advancing at increasingly rapid rate, and researchers making serious headway into discovering the mysteries of the brain, it seems as if we'll all be reconstituted as a computer someday.

Here's a summary of what our future will be like, Kurzweil saidin a speech at the Demo conference in Silicon Valley this past week:

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Here's What Futurist Ray Kurzweil Thinks Life Will Be Like In The Next 20 Years