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Friday, February 22, 2008
Technology's Grand Challenges for Engineering
Humans will learn to halt and reverse the effects of ageing, collect all the energy they need from the sun, and develop fully realistic virtual reality during the 21st century, a leading technologist has predicted.
American inventor and futurologist Ray Kurzweil said mankind is on the brink of radical advances in computer science and medicine that will see tiny robots or "nanobots" embedded in people's bodies, fending off disease and boosting our intelligence.
Mr Kurzweil's predictions are just a small part of a vision of the future set out by a committee of 18 leading technology thinkers at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, held in Feb 2008.
Full report on the conference here
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American inventor and futurologist Ray Kurzweil said mankind is on the brink of radical advances in computer science and medicine that will see tiny robots or "nanobots" embedded in people's bodies, fending off disease and boosting our intelligence.
Mr Kurzweil's predictions are just a small part of a vision of the future set out by a committee of 18 leading technology thinkers at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, held in Feb 2008.
Full report on the conference here
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