IT Conversations & Tech Nation | Podcast: Will biotech save us or hurt us? Ray Kurzweil debates Susan Greenfield at BioAgenda Summit 2006
March 28, 2006
Source: IT Conversations & Tech Nation — March 28, 2006 | Moira Gunn
IT Conversations | 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.”
Baroness Susan Greenfield is the author of The Private Life of the Brain.
Podcast: “Will biotech save us or hurt us?”: Ray Kurzweil’s debates Susan Greeenfield
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by Destiny
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