Who Is Raymond Kurzweil And Why Do So Many Folks Dislike Him?
Well, for starters, I don’t dislike him, nor do I hate him (neither do many of those nice folks above I tried to frame). Quite the opposite actually – I’m in awe of him. And I’m usually very envious of people I’m in awe of. That’s when my noggin’ tricks me into believing that I hate them, when really, all I want to do is to walk in their shoes. Those are some big shoes to fill, I know, but it’s just for a day. Just for a day, to feel what it’s like to walk in the shoes of some of the brightest people on the planet today. For that’s who polymath inventor Raymond Kurzweil is – one of the brightest people on the planet today. At an age when most boys were burying their heads in Archie comics, Ray Kurzweil had already developed a software program which IBM themselves distributed. Kurzweil was 12 then. At 60, Kurzweil is continuing to push the boundaries of technological innovation. The trail of inventions he has left behind is mind-jarring. From his Reading Machine for the blind, to his sy
