Dr. Moira Gunn is on-stage with prolific inventor Ray Kurzweil. You know him best as the inventor of speech recognition systems and music synthesizers. In more recent years he's moved his focus to artificial intelligence, human consciousness and biological intelligence. They talk about his latest book: "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology."

This version of the interview has been edited to fit the radio clock. The unedited edition will be published as part of the Accelerating Change 2005 series here on IT Converations.

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