Technology's Accelerating Impact on Politics

Video is 23 minutes, depicting Ray Kurzweil's appearance at TED 2005. I post it for two reasons. Firstly, it's nice to see very smart people who are genuinely optimistic about the future. We have to be optimists at some level to be liberals and progressives because if we didn't believe progress and improvement was possible, we'd be conservatives, libertarians or (ugh) objectivists. Secondly, while the technologies he predicts are cool and stuff from a nerdy perspective, I want to put the see