Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity | Big Think

Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By 2045, we’ll have expanded the intelligence of our human machine civilization a billion fold. That will result in a technological singularity, a point beyond which it’s hard to imagine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAY KURZWEIL Raymond “Ray“ Kurzweil (born 1948) is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. He has received nineteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents.