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December 21st, 2012 - Part 1
Episode 95 Special guests: Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., Social Scientist JJ. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Futurist, Social Scientist The reality behind the Mayan calendar and 2012; a new age , a time for spiritual and internal reconfiguration. (more in the next 3 videos of the 2012 series)From:JamesJTraitzViews:4 1ratingsTime:02:59More inEntertainment

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The Case Against Radical Philosophy: Anarchism, Fascism, and Communism
This video contains a series of arguments explaining why all radical political philosophy is based upon unjustified beliefs (and should therefore be rejected). 1) Utopian Socialist Communes: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org 2) Communism Standard of Living: http://www.econ.washington.edu 3) en.wikipedia.org 4) Economic Rationality: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org 5) Evidence Humans Aren #39;t Perfectly Rational: http://www.bos.frb.org 6) Failed Futurist Predications: listverse.com http://www.rinkworks.com 7) Problem of the Double Coincidence of Wants: en.wikipedia.org 8) No Empirical Evidence for Barter Economies (Evidence of Gift Economies) http://www.nakedcapitalism.com archive.mises.org 9) Iceland #39;s 5th Court: en.wikipedia.org 10) Medieval Ireland: en.wikipedia.org 11) Paris Commune: en.wikipedia.org 12) Spanish Civil War: en.wikipedia.org econfaculty.gmu.edu 13) Ukraine Famine: en.wikipedia.org 14) Great Leap Forward Famine: en.wikipedia.org 15) Byzantine Empire: en.wikipedia.orgFrom:LaughingMan0XViews:40 8ratingsTime:39:07More inEducation

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Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): Internet search giant Google has hired Ray Kurzweil, the famed inventor and futurist, to work on 'some of the hardest problems in computer science'.

Kurzweil announced that he would join the tech firm officially on Monday.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kurzweil is best known for his theories about "The Singularity," or the point in the future when technology becomes so advanced that it starts outsmarting humans on its own.

The hiring of Kurzweil builds on existing ties between the author and Google, the report said.

Google has partly funded Kurzweil's Singularity University, an academic program launched a few years ago in Silicon Valley to prep students for a tech-heavy future and such concepts as nanotechnology and robotics, it added.

According to the report, Kurzweil described his new title at Google as Director of Engineering.

"In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic," he wrote on ablog post.

"Fast forward a decade-Google has demonstrated self-driving cars, and people are indeed asking questions of their Android phones," he added. (ANI)

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Google hires famed futurist Ray Kurzweil as 'Director of Engineering'

Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said on Friday that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality."

Kurzweil, an author whose books include "The Age of Spiritual Machines" and "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever," said that Monday would be his first day on the job at Google.

"In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic," Kurzweil said in an online newsletter.

"Fast forward a decade -- Google has demonstrated self-driving cars, and people are indeed asking questions of their Android phones," he continued.

"We're really on a remarkable trajectory of quickening innovation, and Google is at the forefront of much of this development."

Kurzweil, who will turn 65 years old in February, said he has been enthralled by technology, especially machine learning, since he was in his early teens.

He designed software that enable a computer to write original music and his inventions include the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, according to the website kurzweilai.net.

"I've always worked to create practical systems that will make a difference in people's lives, which is what excites me as an inventor," Kurzweil said.

"I'm thrilled to be teaming up with Google to work on some of the hardest problems in computer science so we can turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality."

Google research director Peter Norvig praised Kurzweil's contributions to technology, among them an eponymous reading machine that people -- including famed musician Stevie Wonder -- use to have written works read aloud.

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