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Professor Lawrence Lesssig is listed as one of the presenters at the Chicago Humanities Festival:
In a program on transhumanism, a belief that humans can achieve higher levels through technology, visionary inventor Kurzweil is to participate from afar, with his image beamed here from the Boston area. Astronaut Eileen Collins and physicist Ron Mallet are expected to discuss, respectively, space and time travel.
Other scheduled presenters include writers Colson Whitehead, Nicholas Delbanco, Francine Prose and Anne Carson; historians Sean Wilentz and Patricia Limerick; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour; scientists Neil Shubin and Lisa Randall; economist Jeffrey Sachs; and lawyers Laurence Tribe and Laurence Lessig.