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Greenfield v. Kurzweil
The Great Debate

Biotech: Will it Save Us or Hurt Us?
Tech Nation
47 minutes, 21.5mb, recorded 2006-03-28

As part of the recent BioAgenda Summit 2006, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, debates Ray Kurzweil, one of America’s most prolific inventors and a futuristic thinker in his own right.

Their topic? One of the burning questions of our time: Will biotechnology save us? Or hurt us? The answers are nuanced, and they often don’t agree. We’ll find out how the audience voted - From help us to hurt us to “It’s too early to tell.”


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Baroness Susan Greenfield is the Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and author of "The Private Life of the Brain."

Ray Kurzweil is the founder and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies and author of "The Singularity is Near."

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This program is from our Tech Nation series.

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  • Post-production audio engineer: Paul Figgiani
  • Series producer: Niels Mäkel