14Jun/100
VIDEO: 17-Year Old Ray Kurzweil Appears On TV’s “I’ve Got A Secret” (1965)
A young Kurzweil demonstrates his invention: an "electronic computer" that composes music.
Via the New York Times
29Sep/093
INDEPENDENT (UK): By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain…
...or at least that's what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age – the 'singularity' – when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as Usain Bolt (for 15 minutes) – and even live forever. Is there sense to his science – or is the man who reasons that one day he'll bring his dad back from the grave just a mad professor peddling a nightmare vision of the future?