Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Spiritual Machines:
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil is a very bright, inventive person. Forbes magazine, for example, calls him the “ultimate thinking machine” and “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison”. Among his accomplishments is the flatbed scanner, text-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and a music synthesizer. He was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2002.
So yeah, when Ray Kurzweil says stuff – people tend to pay attention.