Ray Kurzweil: Inventor, Futurist, Life Changer
From: Electronic Design - 10/20/2006
By: Doris Kilbane

He successfully predicted the emergence of the World Wide Web and a computer
beating a chess champion. He invented the first print-tospeech reading
machine for the blind, the first music synthesizer that could realistically
recreate the grand piano, and omni-font optical character recognition (OCR).
Now, Ray Kurzweil says we'll be able to eliminate fossil fuels in the next 20
years. And within the next several decades, mankind will live indefinitely. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=13589

Image of Ray Kurzweil:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Files/29/13589/Figure_01.jpg

Picture caption:
Ray Kurzweil's work in pattern recognition led to technologies as diverse as
readers for the blind and musical instruments, like the Kurzweil Model 150
electronic piano.