Be Afraid (The
Atlantic)
Neural Brains
(Business Week)
Kurzweil
Interview* (Tech Review)
Kurzweil
Interview (Zinezone)
Kurzweil
Interview (Psychology Today)
Highly recommended: Kurzweil's articles are available on his site: Kurzeil AI
Kurzweil Interview on the Singularity ("We're doubling the paradigm shift rate, the rate of progress, every decade... [Singularity is] a point where this rate of technological progress will be so rapid that it appears to be a rupture in the fabric of human history" Edge)
Why the
Future Doesn't Need Us (Wired)
Clear the Line,
I'm Sending Myself Right Now (Wired)
Thought
Communication (Wired)
21 Ideas for the 21st Century: Neural Brains
Human Cloning is the Least of It
Deus Ex Silico
The future of Human Evolution
The Human Machine Merger: Why We Will Spend Most of Our Time in Virtual Reality in the Twenty-first Century
20:20 Vision: Towards life in 2020
The future of Technology Drivers in the 21st Century
Evolution and the Internet: Toward A Networked Humanity?
The Future of E-Business
Seen from early 2002: is the Internet finished because the dotcom bubble burst? Compare today's situation with the Internet to the investment bubble around railroads that burst in 1847 in Britain: "After 1850 railways became the ecgine of the economy in Britain." But the railroad business did not come to a halt with the crash - there was a massive buildout after that. See rest of article ("Is the Information Revolution Dead?", Business 2.0)
Design for the Digital Revolution
- * RAY KURZWEIL was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, 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 successfully founded, developed, and sold four AI businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, and reading technology. All of these technologies continue today as market leaders.
- Kurzweil received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the world's largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received ten honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and international film awards. He is the author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, and The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence.