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Futurist Ray Kurzweil on Singularity

Jul 10, 2012 3:47 PM EDT

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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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