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Raymond Kurzweil (/ˈkɜːrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyle; 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. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.

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Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

Doe, Exist, God, God Exists, Say, Wells

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Emotional, People, Computer, Computers

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Brain, Constructs, Dream, Part, People

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Can Do, Everything, Nobody, Pick, Picks, Priorities

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

Profound, Brain, Body, Nature, Human, 2040S

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.

Billion, Differences, Profound, Reality, Technology

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Eyeglasses, Lenses, Computer, Devices, Retinas

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Commit, Educational, Learning, Passion, Value

Play is just another version of work

Play, Version, Versions, Work

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Conscious, Idea, Ideas, Self

As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital.

Powerful, Thinking, Clouds, Digital, Portion

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

Computer, Computers, Funny, Like, Thinking, Way

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

Stories, Levels, Evolution, Abstraction, Story

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Life, Meaning, Reflected, Singularitarian, Singularity, Understands

The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

People, Matter, Next, Biological, Energy, Encounter

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Patterns, Peers, Problems, Successful, Worth

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.

Running, Technology, Water, Like, Seen, Stones

The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious. . . . Does it have feelings?

Deserves, Feelings, Issues, Keys, Rights

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.

Technology, Phones, Self, Decade, Cars, 1999

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Google, Language, Researchers, Team, Understanding

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