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August 25, 2006

Future Shock

Extremely funny, if superficial, Daily Show piece on the future of robots. (Here's part two.) Features Ray Kurzweil in one of his most humorous performances.

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He gets dissed. Sad that he accepted the offer for an interview.

It was Samantha Bee, the most caustic, unpredicatable carbon-based life-form ever (in a really good way). Given that, I thought he came out reasonably well.

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