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The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.

Raymond Kurzweil

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About Raymond Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements.

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Alternative Names: Ray Kurzweil • the ultimate thinking machine • Edison's rightful heir • RK • restless genius • Raymond C. Kurzweil

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If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle.

Neither noise nor information is predictable.

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The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are. - Raymond Kurzweil

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