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Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil in 2017
Born	Raymond Kurzweil (1948-02-12) February 12, 1948 (age 77) Queens, New York City, U.S.
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Occupations	\n Computer scientist \n Author \n Entrepreneur \n Futurist \n Inventor \n
Employer	Google
Known for	\n His predictions \n His books, especially The Singularity Is Near \n The Law of Accelerating Returns \n
Children	2; including Amy Kurzweil
Awards	\n Grace Murray Hopper Award (1978) \n National Medal of Technology (1999) \n
Website	Official website $\"Edit$

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Transhumanism

\n Issues \n Accelerating change \n Eradication of suffering \n Fourth Industrial Revolution \n Human enhancement\n Genetic \n Moral \n Neuro- \n Cognitive liberty \n New eugenics \n Eugenics \n Human nature \n Meliorism \n Post-politics \n Post-scarcity \n
\n People \n Andrews \n Bostrom \n Church \n Drexler \n Freitas \n Fyodorov \n Fahy \n FM-2030 \n Fuller \n de Garis \n Gasson \n Goertzel \n de Grey \n Haldane \n Hanson \n Harari \n Harbisson \n Harris \n Huxley \n Hughes \n Istvan \n Land \n Kurzweil \n More \n Osborn \n Pearce \n Stolyarov \n Sandberg \n Savulescu \n Sorgner \n Spencer \n Stock \n Teilhard de Chardin \n Vita-More \n Warwick \n
\n Influential works \n Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) \n Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) \n Looking Backward (1888) \n The Will to Power (~1901) \n Daedalus (1924) \n La raza c\u00f3smica (1925) \n The Phenomenon of Man (1955) \n The Dialectic of Sex (1970) \n Metaman (1993) \n The Hedonistic Imperative (1995) \n Regeln f\u00fcr den Menschenpark (1997) \n The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) \n Citizen Cyborg (2004) \n The Singularity Is Near (2005) \n Human Enhancement (2009) \n Fanged Noumena (2011) \n The Transhumanist Wager (2013) \n Sapiens (2014) \n Homo Deus (2015) \n The Transhumanist Bill of Rights (2015) \n The Age of Em (2016) \n The Precipice (2020) \n What We Owe the Future (2022) \n \"Techno-Optimist Manifesto\" (2023) \n
\n Variants \n Accelerationism\n Effective \n Cypherpunk \n Dataism \n Extropianism \n Immortalism \n Longtermism \n Postgenderism \n Posthumanism \n Russian Cosmism \n Singularitarianism \n Technogaianism \n Technolibertarianism \n Technological utopianism \n Techno-progressivism \n
\n Related topics \n Dyson sphere \n Technologies\n Emerging \n Disruptive \n Hypothetical \n
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Raymond Kurzweil (/\u02c8k\u025c\u02d0rzwa\u026al/ KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.\n

Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony. He received the $500,000 Lemelson\u2013MIT Prize in 2001. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for the application of technology to improve human-machine communication. In 2002 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He has 21 honorary doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) included Kurzweil as one of 16 \"revolutionaries who made America\" along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Inc. magazine ranked him No. 8 among the \"most fascinating\" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him \"Edison's rightful heir\".\n

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v t e Outline of life extension
Issues	\n Anti-oxidants \n Anti-aging movement \n Biohacking \n Calorie restriction \n Cryonics \n Cyborg \n Exercise \n Free-radical theory \n Gene therapy \n Gerontology \n Glycation \n Indefinite lifespan \n Index of topics related to life extension \n List of aging processes \n Longevity escape velocity \n Mind uploading \n Nanomedicine \n Organ printing \n Rejuvenation \n Senescence \n Stem-cell therapy \n Strategies for engineered negligible senescence \n Transhumanist politics \n
Events	\n Timeline of senescence research \n
People	\n Bill Andrews \n Eric R. Braverman \n Aubrey de Grey \n Laura Deming \n Denham Harman \n Leonard Hayflick \n Saul Kent \n Cynthia Kenyon \n Dimu Kotsovsky \n Ray Kurzweil \n Ilya Mechnikov \n Liz Parrish \n Durk Pearson \n Mark Roth \n Sandy Shaw \n Roy Walford \n Michael D. West \n
Organizations	\n 2045 Initiative \n A4M \n AgeX \n Alliance for Aging Research \n Altos Labs \n AGE \n Buck Institute \n BioViva \n Calico \n ERIBA \n Gerontology Research Group \n Human Longevity \n Immortalist Society \n ILA \n Insilico Medicine \n LEAF \n LEF \n Methuselah Foundation \n MPI for Biology of Ageing \n NIA \n SENS Research Foundation \n Sierra Sciences \n
Books	\n Life Extension (1982) \n The First Immortal (1998) \n Fantastic Voyage (2004) \n Ending Aging (2007) \n Lifespan: Why We Age \u2013 and Why We Don't Have To (2019) \n
Journals	\n Ageing Research Reviews \n Aging \n Aging Cell \n Biogerontology \n Experimental Gerontology \n Neurobiology of Aging \n Rejuvenation Research \n
Categories	\n Life extension \n

v t e Transhumanism
Overviews	\n Transhuman \n Transhumanism in fiction \n
Currents	\n Antinaturalism \n Eradication of suffering \n Extropianism \n Immortalism \n Postgenderism \n Postpoliticism \n Singularitarianism \n Technogaianism \n Techno-progressivism \n
Organizations	\n Foresight Institute \n Humanity+ \n Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies \n Future of Humanity Institute \n LessWrong \n US Transhumanist Party \n
People	\n Nick Bostrom \n Jos\u00e9 Luis Cordeiro \n K. Eric Drexler \n David Gobel \n Ben Goertzel \n Aubrey de Grey \n Zoltan Istvan \n FM-2030 \n Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov \n Robin Hanson \n Yuval Harari \n James Hughes \n Julian Huxley \n Ray Kurzweil \n Ole Martin Moen \n Hans Moravec \n Max More \n Elon Musk \n David Pearce \n Martine Rothblatt \n Anders Sandberg \n Gennady Stolyarov II \n Vernor Vinge \n Natasha Vita-More \n Mark Alan Walker \n Eliezer Yudkowsky \n
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13 January, 1976