"Inc. magazine ranked [Ray Kurzweil] #8 among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him "Edison's rightful heir"."

Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia

Raymond " Ray" Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.

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