Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is a American futurist, inventor, author, and transhumanist. He predicts that computer intelligence will surpass human intelligence by the year 2029.

Ray Kurzweil was exposed to technology and art at an early age, and a combined passion for both has influenced his work. He created an electronic music composition device before graduating college, and was a pioneer in the field of optical character recognition and text-to-speech synthesis. He is a strong proponent of the extension of human lifespan through integration with technology, and works to bring about the Singularity, that point when technology advances to such a degree that human potential extends to our ability to manipulate reality itself.

Kurzweil is a strong believer in the theoretical technological Singularity era. Singularity describes a theorized era that will mark the time when humans are surpassed by computerized artificial intelligence, and humanity will merge with technology.

• The Age of Intelligent Machines
• The Age of Spiritual Machines
• Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
• The Singularity is Near

• Current Projects:
  • Founder/CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
  • Director, The Singularity Institute
  • Editor-In-Chief/CEO, KurzweilAI.net
• Past Projects and Achievements
  • Inductee, The National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Bachelor of Science Graduate, MIT

• Amazon.com: Ray Kurzweil
  • The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990)
  • The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life: How to Reduce Fat... (1994)
  • The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (2000)
  • Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (2001)
  • Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (2004)
  • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2006)

• KurzweilAI.net: Ramona's Videos
• The Singularity Institute: "The Singularity: A Hard Or Soft Takeoff?"
• YouTube & Google Video: Ray Kurzweil
  • "Ray Kurzweil's TV07 Acceptance Speech"
  • "Warfighting in the 21st Century
  • "When Humans Transcend Biology"

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