Ray Kurzweil
Author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
About the Author
Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of show more recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Ray Kurzweil
The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life: How to Reduce Fat in Your Diet and Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease… (1992) 48 copies
After Shock: The World's Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock—and Look Ahead to the Next 50 (2020) 20 copies
The Ray Kurzweil Reader 3 copies
Science of the Soul — Performer — 2 copies
A medicina da imortalidade 2 copies
Spiritualities, ethics, and implications of human enhancement and artificial intelligence (Series in Philosophy) (2020) 1 copy
Transcendent Man 1 copy
Danielle Box Set [Contains Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine and A Chronicle of Ideas: A Guide for Superheroines… (2019) 1 copy
Seminario audiovisual de management 14. Negocios del futuro: las tendencias tecnológicas que vienen. 1 copy
How to Predict the Future 1 copy
Onsterfelijk 1 copy
Associated Works
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributor — 630 copies
Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix (2003) — Contributor — 301 copies
Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (2002) — Contributor — 99 copies
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Deepak Chopra,… (2005) — Contributor — 67 copies
One Can Make a Difference: Original stories by the Dali Lama, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Dennis Kucinch, Russel… (2008) — Contributor — 28 copies
Virtual Humans : a Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-Step Instructions (2003) — Introduction, some editions — 19 copies
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment (The Frontiers Collection) (2013) — Contributor — 13 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Kurzweil, Ray
- Legal name
- Kurzweil, Raymond
- Other names
- KURZWEIL, Raymond
KURZWEIL, Ray - Birthdate
- 1948-02-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Queens, New York, USA
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS|1970)
- Occupations
- inventor
futurist
businessman - Relationships
- Kurzweil, Sonya (spouse)
Kurzweil, Amy (child) - Organizations
- Kurzweil Music Systems
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc.
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence
Kurzweil Educational Systems - Awards and honors
- First place - International Science Fair (1965)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (1978)
Dickson Prize in Science (1994)
Inventor of the Year -- MIT (1998)
National Medal of Technology (1999)
Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology (2000) (show all 12)
Lemelson-MIT Prize (2001)
National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002)
Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)
ACM (Fellow)
Design Futures Council (Fellow)
National Academy of Engineering (2001) - Short biography
- Ray Kurzweil is the principal developer of (among a host of other inventions) the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition system. Recipient of the National Medal of Technology among many other honors. [from What We Believe But Cannot Prove (2006)]
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The book walks on the edge of a ridiculous proposition, that we might live forever. This is an odd mix of healthy advice, scientific and engineering prowess and potential snake oil pseudoscience solutions that have not been tested broadly enough and are not for everyone.
I love the text as seen from a distance, this is content that is so hard to categorise from self help, philosophy to politics even. Whether this text or the previous “fantastic voyage” are realistic and accurate enough to really help people live healthier and longer lives I am not sure. But we should welcome books that aim to envision transformation at this scale as long as they are clear about how robust their advice is.… (more)
I love the text as seen from a distance, this is content that is so hard to categorise from self help, philosophy to politics even. Whether this text or the previous “fantastic voyage” are realistic and accurate enough to really help people live healthier and longer lives I am not sure. But we should welcome books that aim to envision transformation at this scale as long as they are clear about how robust their advice is.… (more)
A key book in the trans-human philosophical development: Ray Kurzweil unleashes the thesis that by 2032 we would hit a point of no return with respect of machine intelligence. The book is a must read even if much of it is subject to discussion.
Philosophically the most interesting aspect is that computational power is automatically aligned with intelligence and with sustainable existence. While many of the discussions since this work note how coexistence with general AI might be impossible, that exponential growth may damage the environment, that intelligence in the true sense should account for all other conscious versions of itself.… (more)
Philosophically the most interesting aspect is that computational power is automatically aligned with intelligence and with sustainable existence. While many of the discussions since this work note how coexistence with general AI might be impossible, that exponential growth may damage the environment, that intelligence in the true sense should account for all other conscious versions of itself.… (more)
An important book that helped make radical life extension a pop theme for many years after. The hypothesis so far has not quite worked except for extremely wealthy people and complicated treatments that seem to offer an edge.
What is really important and a shift that society still has to make is to emphasise mantaining good health, avoiding disease as being more important than repairing what goes wrong. This emerges automatically from healthy life extension movements.
What is really important and a shift that society still has to make is to emphasise mantaining good health, avoiding disease as being more important than repairing what goes wrong. This emerges automatically from healthy life extension movements.
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- Works
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- Also by
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- Members
- 6,236
- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.8
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- ISBNs
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I had to close it. AI is here.