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Ray Kurzweil


Born
in Queens, New York, The United States
February 12, 1948

Website

Genre
Computers & Internet, Philosophy, Science

Influences
Julian Huxley ...more


Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inv ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 32,742 ratings · 2,847 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”
― Ray Kurzweil
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“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
tags: creativity, minimalism
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“Play is just another version of work”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
tags: creativity, play, work
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