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Ray Kurzweil

Futurist; The Singularity Is Nearer, Google

  • Futurist; The Singularity Is Nearer, Google12

Raymond Kurzweil 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.123

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Futurist; The Singularity Is Nearer
Company
Google
Sources cited
3
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Accomplishments

  • Futurist; The Singularity Is Nearer at Google.1
  • Has an English Wikipedia biography.1

Writing and public work

Raymond Kurzweil 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.123

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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026

  1. Ray Kurzweil — WikipediaWikipedia · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  2. Ray Kurzweil — WikidataWikidata · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  3. Ray Kurzweil — websiteRay Kurzweil · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026