<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53504d6f-f90a-4e8c-bcf3-9fc4c2503012/03819D3E-2EA1-4B33-A098-98A2ADDA1CF7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity"><DIV id="article-header"> <DIV id="main-article-info"> <H1>Ray Kurzweil to head futurology school backed by Nasa and Google</H1> <H2 class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">The Singularity University will offer courses in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and biotechnology</H2> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity"><P>An American inventor who plans to live forever has been appointed head of a new school for futurologists backed by <A title="Guardian Google page" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/google"></A><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/google">Google</A> and the US space agency Nasa.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity"><P><A title="Ray Kurzweil biography" href="http://www.kurzweiltech.com/raybio.html">Ray Kurzweil</A>, who worked as a computer scientist before turning to future gazing in the late 1980s, will become chancellor of the Singularity University based at Nasa's Silicon Valley campus in California.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity"><P>In an earlier book, Kurzweil predicts the creation of "nanobots" that will patrol our bloodstreams, repairing wear and tear as they go, and keeping our bodies perpetually young.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/03/nasa-google-futurology-kurzweil-singularity"><P>The new institute will offer courses on artificial intelligence, <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/nanotechnology">nanotechnology</A> and biotechnology and is due to open its doors to its first class of 30 students this summer.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/03819D3E-2EA1-4B33-A098-98A2ADDA1CF7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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