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Ray Kurzweil: Is the Singularity Near?

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The World Technology Summit & Awards

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Partner:: World Technology Network
Location:: TIME Conference Center
New York, NY
Event Date:: 11.30.10
Speaker:: Ray Kurzweil
Tags:: information; information technology; digital technology

Summary: On November 30th and December 1st, 2010, at the TIME Conference Center in New York City, many of the most innovative people and organizations in the science and technology world came together for an historic gathering - the 2010 World Technology Summit & Awards, the eighth Summit and ninth Awards thus far! - to celebrate each other's accomplishments; to explore what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies; and to create the kinds of serendipitous relationships that create the future.

The majority of Summit participants were either current WTN members (primarily winners/finalists from previous World Technology Awards cycles, as selected by their peers as those doing the innovative work of "the greatest likely long-term significance") or 2010 World Technology Award nominees. A combination of keynote talks, panel discussions, and breakout sessions... and potentially-career-altering-networking opportunities over two days concluded with a gala black-tie Awards ceremony on the second night.

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Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil has been described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison," and PBS included Kurzweil as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America." As one of the leading inventors of our time, Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Kurzweil has written six books, four of which have been national best sellers. Kurzweil's latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

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01.: Information Technology Grows Exponentially

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02.: Success Depends on Good Timing

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03.: Human Intuition About the Future Is Linear

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04.: The Future of Technology Is Very Predictable

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05.: Exponential Trend of Paradigm Shifts

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06.: Plummeting Cost of Better Technology

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07.: Revolution in Biotechnology

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08.: Communication Technology Doubles Every Year

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09.: Technology Is Shrinking

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10.: Reverse Engineering the Brain

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11.: Economic Growth and Education

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12.: Exponential Growth of Solar Energy

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Linear Forecasting Lags Behind Exponential Growth of Tech

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

artificial intelligence (AI): Ability of a machine to perform tasks thought to require human intelligence. Typical applications include game playing, language translation, expert systems, and robotics. Although pseudo-intelligent machinery dates back to antiquity, the first glimmerings of true intelligence awaited the development of digital computers in the 1940s. AI, or at least the semblance of intelligence, has developed in parallel with computer processing power, which appears to be the main limiting factor. Early AI projects, such as playing chess and solving mathematical problems, are now seen as trivial compared to visual pattern recognition, complex decision making, and the use of natural language. See also Turing test.; artificial intelligence (AI) on britannica.com