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Editor’s note: Had you been at the Learning Technologies conference 2012 you would have heard Ray Kurzweil talking about machines becoming more intelligent than humans – the singularity. Well, Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers will never replicate the human brain and that the technological Singularity is “a bunch of hot air.”

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Editor’s note: Are we being made more intelligent by our habituated uses of technology, or are we becoming smarter because we have more opportunities to create our own content, and think more deeply about it? Steve Wheeler discusses.