Transcendent Man directed by Barry Ptolemy
RAY KURZWEIL has a recurring dream. In it, he is walking through an endless series of empty rooms, unable to find another human being. This is his vision of death, one marked by profound loneliness and exile from human relationships. In Transcendent Man, Barry Ptolemy‘s moving documentary about the futurist, we find that this same loneliness haunts Kurzweil through the spectre of his father, who died from heart disease when Kurzweil was in his twenties.
“I felt frustrated in that keeping him alive was a goal that slipped through my fingers,” Kurzweil laments. Throughout the film we see that…
