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Raymond “Ray” Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist.

Born on 12 February 1948 in New York, Kurtzweil has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence. For example, in his first book in 1990, he foresaw the explosive growth of the internet.

The Wall Street Journal has described Kurtzweil as “the restless genius” and Inc. magazine has called him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison”.

Kurzweil was – among his other achievements – 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 and the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments.