It was interesting to read and learn about Ray Kurzweil, one of the worlds leading inventors, futurists, and thinkers. Also known as the "restless genius" he was named the "ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine.
Ray has invented many life changing objects like 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 recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
He has also received many honors and written a few books in his lifetime.
Many of his inventions were changed the way our future has evolved. The scanner was an important revolutionary invention that made society able to scan different objects and papers. Many of us use this everyday yet we take it for granted. Without this, many of the things we do today and documents we read would not be in existence.
Another great invention was the print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. This gave the blind the ability to read documents they could not see, changing the way the approach different papers, now.
I watched an interesting video by Kurzweil called "Immorality by 2045." He states that in the future, the non-biological parts of us will dominate the biological aspects. The non-biological parts, or the machine parts, will overtake us and the biological parts will not even know. Virtual reality will be as real as it gets as long as the virtual body. He said we can change our bodies in the virtual world instead of keeping a frail and failure real life body. We will be able to change our bodies and our environment very quickly. All in all, we are headed towards a radical life expansion.
I think that Ray is a very smart man and his theories on the future quite interesting. We will have to see whether they are true or not, but as of right now, his theories seem to be accurate.
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