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Big Think is hosted a live event about the future of search technology on February 1, 2011, in San Francisco.

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Peter Diamandis says that innovation is in the hands of small companies, not large corporations and governments that are risk-averse. Garry Kasparov argues the disinclination toward risk would rob us of a Columbus or Magellan today.

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