Ray responds to Craig Venter making artificial life!

Ray has something to say about Craig Venter making an organism whose DNA was designed on a computer (from May 20th):

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D12190

This, of course, begs the question: if we design an artificial organism that turns out to be intelligent, will it be considered artificial intelligence? Stay tuned for the intriguing answer...

Ray's got some new material!

Apparently, when Ray speaks at the H+ Summit at Harvard on June 12-13th, he'll have some new material! Wonder if he'll have the one about the priest, the rabbi, and the human body 3.0...

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/science/humanity-conference-brings-citizen-scientists-and-ray-kurzweil-harvard

Ray at IBM Impact 2010

Ray was at IBM Impact 2010 this past week, May 5th-7th. Watch his talk - he had a computer the size of the auditorium back 30 years ago which was a thousand times smaller and a million times cheaper - that's a 0% increase since he's been using the same quote for the past 2 years! j/k Ray, we love you!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLe_LZV9Uz0

World Future Review Interview!

Ray was interviewed by the World Future Review on May 5th! I wonder if they have a clubhouse....

http://worldfuture2010.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/an-interview-with-ray-kurzweil-inventor-best-selling-author-worldfuture-2010-speaker/

Ray Kurzweil Interview/PodCast

The Pheonix (some paper in Boston) interviews Ray for an article on April 30th. Listen to the Podcast and read the article - get informed about the future!

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2010/04/30/podcast-our-chat-with-ray-kurzweil.aspx