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Ray Kurzweil, born on February 12, 1948, is an American author, inventor, and futurist. He is renowned for his contributions to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and optical character recognition. Kurzweil's writings span a variety of topics including technology, future trends, and human potential, and he is a prolific author with over 20 books to his name.

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“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.”

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“The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.”

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“In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.”

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“By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.”

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Book:The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.”

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“By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.”

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“There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.”

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“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.”

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Born: February 12, 1948
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend BiologyRelated source material

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