This is a panel review and audience discussion on the groundbreaking but controversial ideas and projects of Ray Kurzweil, especially as featured in the film Transcendent Man which has its London premier earlier in the same week:http://transcendent-man-london-premiere-5-april-2011.eventbrite.com/

Kurzweil's ideas are far-reaching. They cover many aspects of the ways in which rapidly changing technology is impacting what it means to be human: computers may soon become more intelligent than humans, and humans may soon be able to live indefinitely long. Biology is merging with technology. A kind of unpredictable "singularity" in human evolution could be just around the corner.

How credible are these ideas? What do expert reviewers think about these ideas -- and about the way these ideas are portrayed in the film? What are the highlights -- and the lowlights -- of the film? What (if anything) should we do differently, as a result of these ideas? These (among others) are the questions the panellists are expected to tackle.