Ray Kurzweil: Don't fear the nanofuture
News When it comes to imagining the future, Ray Kurzweil has an impressive list of credentials to state his case. Among other achievements, Kurzweil, who has worked on artificial intelligence and pattern recognition technologies for over four decades...
[March 20, 2001, 11:00]
Tech visionary foresees mobile-phone revolution
News The mobile phone is already revolutionising societies around the world, but its impact is increasing as phones become more powerful and find their way into the hands of more and more people, according to futurist, inventor and author Ray Kurzweil.
[May 20, 2008, 12:39]
Nanoethics review
Reviews Joy had been talking to well-known and respected inventor Ray Kurzweil, and after a year of thought had concluded that some technologies are just too dangerous to pursue. Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology reprints...
[October 15, 2007, 12:39]
The future of machine intelligence at IDF
News Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner agrees with futurist Ray Kurzweil's assessment that the point is nigh when machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence. To provide some evidence that technology is moving in that direction, he...
[August 22, 2008, 17:03]
Sentience: The next moral dilemma
News These include names like Ray Kurzweil -- inventor of the first reading machine for the blind -- Berkeley's John Searle and perhaps the man who deserves most credit for adding legitimacy to this belief, Sun Microsystems' Bill Joy.
[January 24, 2001, 16:30]
Report predicts 'wired brains'
News Taking visionaries such as Ray Kurzweil seriously, it imagines robots so advanced they may deserve political rights, building surfaces that automatically change shape and color to adjust to the weather, and the prospect of personality uploads that...
[August 6, 2002, 10:42]
Tech visionary gets inventor prize
News Raymond Kurzweil was going through the 20-odd messages left on his answering machine when his ears pricked up upon hearing the voice of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Lester Thurow. said Kurzweil, who created the first reading...
[April 26, 2001, 8:53]
Kurzweil 3000 Reading Software Helps Business Leader Reach Full Potential
White Papers Ray Sands Glass President and General Manager (GM) runs a busy and demanding business that requires both face-to-face and computer-based communications. But a learning disability makes reading a struggle for him.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
