Streaming video viewers: E-mail your questions to the panel while the webcast is in progress. We’ll read some questions aloud during the QA portion of the event.

A panel discussion with:

Denise Caruso, founder and executive director of the Hybrid Vigor Institute

Ray Kurzweil (By videoconference), founder of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines

Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs

Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomband other books

Mark Schapiro, Journalist and Deputy Editorial Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting

Moderated by Christina Desser, co-editor of Living With the Genie

Introduced by Michael Pollan, Knight Professor at the School of Journalism