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Ray Kurzweil

Inventor, Author, Futurist

In 10 years we'll have three dimensional virtual realities that will seem just like real reality, beamed straight from eyeglasses into our retinas. Read More

At what point does a robot become so lifelike that it becomes a human? And vice-versa, at what point does a human with robotic enhancements no longer become a human? Read More

If you can survive for 34 more years, you have a good shot at living forever, says futurist Ray Kurzweil. Here are his three favorite dietary supplements that will make sure he's around for the singularity. Read More

Once humans and machines merge—in 2045, according to Kurzweil—reproduction will no longer be a biological necessity. So why and how will we continue to have sex? Read More

With the world's knowledge at their fingertips, students no longer need to be spoon-fed facts, but they do need to develop a thirst for knowledge and the ability to learn new material—skills that can be learned through entrepreneurship. Read More

With Time magazine's recent cover story on futurist Ray Kurzweil, his theories about the singularity have entered the mainstream. Now hear them straight from the source. Read More

The coming biotechnology revolution will allow us, in the next 15 to 20 years, to reprogram our genes to resist both aging and disease. By mid-century, we may all be kept healthy and young by billions of nanorobots inside of our bodies. Read More

Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses how robotic red blood cells will aid in ending disease as we know it. Read More

The true promise of nanotechnology, says Ray Kurzweil, is that "we’ll be able to create just about anything we need in the physical world from information files with very inexpensive input materials." Read More

Futurist Ray Kurzweil on preparing for the Singularity. Read More

Futurist Ray Kurzweil explores the next phase of virtual reality. Read More

By 2045, we’ll have expanded the intelligence of our human machine civilization a billion fold. That will result in a technological singularity, a point beyond which it's hard to imagine. Read More

About Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (born 1948) is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.

He has received nineteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents.

Ray has written six books, four of which have been national best sellers.  The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science.  Ray’s latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

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