Raymond Kurzweil discusses three important trends he wrote about in his book: the exponential growth of information technology, how information technology is increasingly pervasive, and the increasing decentralization of our technology base of our infrastructure. Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes, Kurzweil's ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, ranging from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. Inc. Magazine ranked him number eight among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison," and PBS included him as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America." Kurzweil developed the first omni-font optical character recognition (OCR,) the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, 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. For more information on Kurzweil and other speakers please visit www.apbspeakers.com
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