• Forbes, Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:49 PM

Ray Kurzweil, Google director of engineering, futurist and author, made a prediction at the June 16 second Global Futures 2045 conference causing a bit of buzz. He described a transformation in the health and medicine industry that would treat biology as software, reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments. Scientists have already made progress in medicine, but he said humanity can expect this to be 1,000 times more powerful by the end of the decade, and a million times more powerful in 20 years. Read the article here.

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