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Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us

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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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• Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas›Ciencias Computacionales

Juan Enriquez wants to grow energy

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Juan Enriquez offers some ground-breaking research to explore the potential of bioenergy. Our current energy sources -- coal, oil, gas -- are ultimately derived from ancient plants -- they're "concentrated sunlight." He asks, Can we learn from that process and accelerate it? Can we get to the point where we grow our own energy as efficiently as we grow wheat? (Less than a month after this talk, his company announced a process to do just that.)

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• Ciencias Sociales›Sociología e Historia Social›Sociología›Obras Generales