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Hello, good evening. I'm Susan Angle and I have the privilege of being the director of 92nd Street Y Talks.

Tonight's event is part of our third annual Seven Days of Genius Festival,

which invites leading thinkers to explore all aspects of genius.

How we define it, how it emerges across communities and cultures, why it matters, and what the future of genius looks like.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History

and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History.

Please join me in welcoming to this stage Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Thank you all for coming out.

You come here to watch a conversation I'm about to have with the one and the very much only Ray Kurzweil.

Ray, I've got his bio here and I'll read his bio and it's just stunning that he walks among us.

And so that someone such as he is there saving us from ourselves and leading us into the future with the guiding light of wisdom, science and technology.

So we have one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and perhaps most importantly, futurists.

And he's got a 30-year track record of accurate predictions.

We'll double verify that this evening. I want to know what predictions he swept under the rug that we didn't hear about later.

And he's been called the Restless Genius by the Wall Street Journal.

That's the best kind, by the way. And the ultimate thinking machine by Forbes Magazine.

And he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc Magazine, INC.

There's a separate one for pen lovers called INK that's not the one.

Which describes him as the rightful heir to Thomas Edison, one of the most famous of the restful geniuses in our history books.

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