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I’ve admired Ray’s work for many years. He continues to surprise people because his vision is consistently “beyond the horizon.” People, even scientists and technologists, tend to predict the future based on the recent past. They consistently underestimate future changes because, in any short segment, an exponential growth curve appears relatively straight. Hence, we tend to make linear projections. Ray’s vision is so dramatically exponential that he envisions a singularity–a time in the near future (our lifetime) when our artificially-evolved intelligent transhuman species bursts forth outside of the confines of earth and fills the known universe.

Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ray gave the evening Keynote speech. We were fortunate enough to have two HD cameras at the conference and grabbed the entire keynote with house audio. Whereas we would normally cut this 80 minute presentation into a 10 to 15 minute chunk, Ray’s material was so good, so inspiring that we have decided to leave it complete.

Source: TechnologyEvangelist.com

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