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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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X-Prize Foundation Founder and Chairman Peter Diamandis and best-selling technology writer Nicholas Carr both speak to both the dreams and fears of what the web is becoming.

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