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Perspective

Aug. 20, 2010

Forecasts of the Future: Technology And the Law

With technological progress predicted to continue growing exponentially for at least 20 years, what rewards and threats will result from such rapid advance? By Vance A. Woodward.

By Vance A. Woodward

This past weekend, I attended the "Singularity Summit" in San Francisco, an annual symposium that meets with the purpose of discussing current developments in technology and science as they relate to the "technological singularity." The technological singularity is a prediction that many significant areas of technological progress will continue to advance at exponential rates for at least the next 30 years o...

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