The accelerating power of technology

TED2005 · 22:56 · Filmed Feb 2005
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Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology

22:56 · Filmed February 2005 at TED2005 · Subtitles available in 22 languages

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.

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Ray Kurzweil

Inventor, futurist

Ray Kurzweil is an engineer who has radically advanced the fields of speech, text and audio technology. He's revered for his dizzying — yet convincing — writing on the advance of technology, the limits of biology and the future of the human species. Full bio