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Five futurist visionaries and what they got right Created 06/29/2010 7:46:24 AM
 

Within 50 years humans will merge with machines and become both superintelligent and immortal, in an event known as the technological singularity. So says the ever-controversial futurist Ray Kurzweil. We pick his brains on his latest initiative, the Singularity University, and on his plan to use advancing technology to bring his father back from the dead in our exclusive interview with him this week.

Kurzweil is just one of many players who have tried to map out the future of the human race, and tried to ensure that their vision comes true, from the transhumanist movement to "human cyborg" Kevin Warwick.

New Scientist brings you five of the most interesting future-movers and shapers.

Read the full article at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17082-five-futurist-visionaries-and-what-they-got-right.html