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		<title><![CDATA[Kurzweil: 'Exponential' change ahead for games, people]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurzweil: 'Exponential' change ahead for games, peopleA Public Thank You....As the IS&T Manager for NMSBVI (20 years) I would like to thanks Ray Kruzweil for bring the world of print to the blind and visually impaired.  The innovation of text-to-speech and the use of OCR has brought the printed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nanotech and immortality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24727&messageID=464772&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Nanotech and immortalityFoolish flies fought with flypaper and lost.Kurzwiel's point is: If life were intelligently designed; living things would work efficiently and with sustainable perfection. Since none do; there is not, nor has there ever been, a designer of life: intelligent or otherwise. Read the book and listen to his...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:59:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nanotech and immortality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1594]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  From the "out of left field" department, I've been finishing up my reading of Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near," a book I bought over eight months ago and hadn't got around to finishing yet.  In my defense, at  651 pages and with enough cross-disiplinary technical...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:22:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Singularity: Technology, spirituality and the close box]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3030]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ray Kurzweil responded to various critiques and questions, and stuck to his PowerPoint slides of datapoints that convey his Singularity theory. He emphasized that because of the accelerating pace of change, technology will be able to solve all problems, from the practical problems of climate change and energy efficiency to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 17:37:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The great Singularity debate]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3029]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus. Very orderly and probably not very comfortable for the panelists who don't...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 13:24:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ray Kurzweil accelerates change at weekend confab]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1882]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend Stanford University hosted the Accelerating Change 2005 conference, bringing together visionaries, academics, and forward-thinking executives to share thoughts on Artificial intelligence AI&mdash;in the broadest sense of the word&mdash;and Intelligence amplification IA, which, according to the conference Website, "empowers human beings and their social, political, and economic environments."...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:53:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kurzweil's Kurves map death of PCs, complete reverse-engineering of the brain, and Matrix-like virtual reality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=584]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent the last few days digesting a presentation given at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference by optical character recognition/speech recognition legend and National Inventors Hall of Famer Ray Kurzweil. Not looking at it.  Just thinking about it.  Kurzweil spent the better part of his presentation download the PowerPoint slides here showing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:02:35 -0700</pubDate>
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