March 23, 2009
The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse them
Stories by Ray Kurzweil
RAY KURZWEIL is CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. He led teams that built a pioneering print-to-speech reading machine, the first omni-font ("any" font) optical-character-recognition system, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of re-creating the grand piano and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech-recognition system.
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The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse them.
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Reprogramming Biology
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