Profile of Ray Kurzweil on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, The Singularity is Near. "This individualistic, mechanistic ethos, his critics argue, also blurs Kurzweil's predictive power, because it ignores all the ways in which technologies are bounded by social forces." Gotta love his quest for immortality though.
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