Raymond Kurzweil, the son of Jewish parents who fled Austria just before the beginning of WWII, has been awarded 16 honorary degrees and is the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement award. He has written extensively about artificial intelligence and cloning, and has been involved in some of the earliest computer projects, including music software.
Ray Kurzweil
Everything is exponential to Ray Kurzweil. Ray has studied technology trends for a long time. An avid futurist, and as some say a transhumanist, he wants to understand what technological advances the future is going to bring. Want to know what the technology of the future will look like? Ray can imagine it. Not without his share of critics, he believes we will have enough solar energy to meet our needs in 16 years and a complete understanding of how the human brain works in the next 20 years. "Evolution is a spiritual process," he says, bringing us closer to "the ideal of God."
