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Kurzweil Speaks to Educators about Tech Advances

December 10, 2006

Updated: December 10, 2006

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Futurist and best-selling author Ray Kurzweil spoke with Gregg W. Downey recently in Dallas. This is a three segment report of the interview:

Segment I, Social networking and the democratization of the internet;

Segment II, Real-time translation software and the impotance of teaching students global awareness and

Segment III: Whether wisdom can keep pace with accelerating intelligence and technology’s potential to improve health and extend human lifespans.

Why should educators pay attention to Kurzweil? Because he does what educators also try to do, although he does not hold a classroom teaching position every day.

He’s one of the people creating tools that expands options that individuals (teachers and students) in and out of school may select in order to live our lives as each one of us may choose.

Thanks, Gregg, for your great interview.

Robert Heiny http://www.robertheiny.com

Robert W. Heiny, Ph.D. is a retired professor, social scientist, and business partner with previous academic appointments as a public school classroom teacher, senior faculty, or senior research member, and administrator. Appointments included at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peabody College and the Kennedy Center now of Vanderbilt University; and Brandeis University. Dr. Heiny also served as Director of the Montana Center on Disabilities. His peer reviewed contributions to education include publication in The Encyclopedia of Education (1971), and in professional journals and conferences. He served s an expert reviewer of proposals to USOE, and on a team that wrote plans for 12 state-wide and multistate special education and preschools programs. He currently writes user guides for educators and learners as well as columns for TuxReports.com.

Kurzweil Speaks to Educators about Tech Advances

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