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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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Is the promise of search technology just a lot of hype, as Malcolm Gladwell suggests, or will our ability to employ breakthrough technologies in search, as Peter Diamandis argues, make human beings omnipotent, or even “God-like”?

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