Futurist Ray Kurzweil on Singularity

Season 2012

Paul Solman talks with Ray Kurzweil about singularity: the melding of man and machine.

Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil talks with economics correspondent Paul Solman about what Kurzweil has dubbed 'the singularity': the melding of man and machine to the point where one can't tell the difference between the two.

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil on Singularity

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