Fascinating interview with Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (Called “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison") who is currently promoting his book "Singularity", where he points out: "Only exponential growth of information technology has the scale to address the major challenges to humanity like energy, environment, disease and poverty. While at the same time protect ourselves from those who would abuse it." "Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil, The charismatic and prolific inventor has dedicated his life to accelerating intelligence. He is also: an American author, inventor, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google. Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology the principal developer of the first CCD flatbed 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 recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition." Read more at matadornetwork/bnt/ray-kurzweil-the-human-machine-civilization-is-our-destiny/#Mzgc2XZkJxeShCY4.99 ." youtube/watch?v=0BUYbEgOZt4
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:21:23 +0000
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