Motivational Speaker - Raymond Kurzweil - Total Access Speakers Bureau

Ray Kurzweil has been described as �the restless genius� by the Wall Street Journal, and �the ultimate thinking machine� by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the �rightful heir to Thomas Edison,� and PBS included Ray as one of 16 �revolutionaries who made
America,� along with other inventors of the past two centuries.
As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was 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, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestralinstruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray�s web site Kurzweil AI.net has over one million readers. Among Ray�s many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize,the world's largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame , established by the US Patent Office.
He has received sixteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written five books, four of which have been national best sellers. The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best
selling book on Amazon in science. Ray�s latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

*** Speech Titles

* On the Future:

Accelerating to the Singularity

Science, Technology, and Invention: Strategies to Create the Future

Early in the Twenty-First Century, Intelligence will Underlie Everything of Value

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy, and Society

The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Media,Communications, and Society

The Next 20 Years of Gaming

Transformation and the Pace of Change

The Accelerating Impact of Exponentially Expanding Complex Systems

The Coming Merger of Biological and Non Biological Intelligence

An Exponentially Expanding Future from Exponentially Shrinking Technology

The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One

* On Health/Longevity:

The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Healthcare and Medicine

The Democratization of Health and Medicine in an Era of Accelerating Technologies

Human Body Version 2.0: When Humans Transcend Biology
Reprogramming Biology: The New Paradigm

A Bridge to a Bridge to a Bridge...to Extreme Life Extension
How to Live Long Enough to Live Forever

The Coming Merger of Human and Machine: the Radical Expansion of Human Longevity and Intelligence

Reverse Engineering the Human Body and Brain -- The Impact on Human Health and Society

Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Two Overlapping Health Revolutions

The Impact of 21st Century Technology on Human Health and Society
Extending our Vision and our Life Expectancy through Accelerating Technologies

The Exponential Growth of Information Technology: The Impact on Health Care, the Economy, and Policy in the Early 21st Century

* On Innovation & Entrepreneurship:

The Democratization of Innovation and Design in an Era of Accelerating Technologies

How to Manage Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies
Identifying an Opportunity in Technology

Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies

The Power of an Idea

The Democratization of Creativity

* On the Social Impact of Technology:

Towards Singularity - it's Nature, Promise, and Dangers

How Far will Technology Transform Humanity?

Promise and Peril - The Deeply Intertwined Poles of 21st Century Technology

Computers and Consciousness

Virtual Reality and the Nature of Identity

Are We Spiritual Machines?

Raymond Kurzweil

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