Raymond Kurzweil

American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)

In the history of technology, Raymond Kurzweil is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Raymond Kurzweil as American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948).

Raymond Kurzweil was born at Queens in 1948. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Martin Van Buren High School.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Raymond Kurzweil is described as inventor, computer scientist and entrepreneur.

His affiliations include Google.

His principal work is predictions made by Ray Kurzweil. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

His recorded fields of work are futures studies, computer programming and optical character recognition.

Formal recognition came in the shape of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1999) and National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002).

That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.

Raymond Kurzweil is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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