Time | at SXSW Interactive 2012, Time’s own Lev Grossman was at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, where he interviewed author and futurist Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) during an interactive keynote at 2 p.m. CT titled “Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit.”  The renowned futurist discusses the rapid pace of recent technological change in a mind-expanding keynote conversation about our future.

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live | Jimmy Kimmel interviews futurist and pioneer Ray Kurzweil on June 16, 2011.

ABC Lateline | Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil argues the exponential growth of medical technology will result in humans merging with machines. Kurzweil foresees a “human-machine singularity.” Steve Cannane presents.

Authors@Google | Ray Kurzweil visits Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters to give his talk: “The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One.” This event took place on July 1, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.

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Brian Hoffstein | Filmed right before his talk in Los Angeles, I got a chance to briefly speak with Ray Kurzweil — the futurist extraordinaire and prophet of the Singularity.

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