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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (65457)	7/7/2006 6:15:40 AM
From: zamboz	Respond to of 110194

Kurzweil believes we will be able to scan the human brain and nervous system into computers this century. Thay way, one could live forever. He wrote some good books. Lots of blue sky thinking about the future of technology.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (65457)	7/7/2006 8:15:18 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Kurzweil is a genius. I raised the money, Ray did the computer programs. We did the OCR & reading machine for the blind. This is the Kurzweil Reading Machine today,Xerox bought out KCP,Kurzweil Coputer Products in 1980: eyeassociates.com kurzweiltech.com Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence . All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray's Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence. Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize (view the video), the nation's largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received twelve honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and international film awards. Ray's books include The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Four of Ray's books have been national best sellers and The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science. Ray Kurzweil's new book, published by Viking Press, is entitled The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology. --------------------- This Kurzweil guy sounds seriously deluded. I guess that's one of the ways people react to approaching death.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (65457)	7/7/2006 8:32:58 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Everyone on the planet should read this book if you care one wit about your own health. fantastic-voyage.net mmortality is within our grasp . . .In Fantastic Voyage, high-tech visionary Ray Kurzweil teams up with life-extension expert Terry Grossman, M.D., to consider the awesome benefits to human health and longevity promised by the leading edge of medical science--and what you can do today to take full advantage of these startling advances. Citing extensive research findings that sound as radical as the most speculative science fiction, Kurzweil and Grossman offer a program designed to slow aging and disease processes to such a degree that you should be in good health and good spirits when the more extreme life-extending and life-enhancing technologies--now in development--become available. This bridge to the future will enable those who dare to make the journey from this century to the next . . . and beyond. Fantastic Voyage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hardcover 400 pages By: Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D. 1-57954-954-3 Price: $24.95 Fantastic Voyage One of the most respected scientists and futurists in America teams up with an expert on human longevity to show how we can tap today's revolution in biotechnology and nanotechnology to virtually live forever. Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are occuring every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as what was once thought to be science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Soon, for example, it will be feasible for 10% of our red blood cells to be replaced by artificial cells, radically extending our life expectancy and enhancing our physical and even mental abilities beyond what is humanly possible today. In Fantastic Voyage, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D., will show us how amazingly advanced we are in our medical technology, and how we can use technology to live as long as we dare. It is possible to prevent nearly 90% of the diseases that kill us. The authors take the reader on a fantastic journey to undreamed-of vitality with a comprehensive investigation into the cutting-edge science on diet, metabolism, genetics, toxins and detoxification, the hormones involved with aging and youth. By following their program, which includes such simple recommendations as drinking alkaline water and taking specific nutritional supplements to enhance your immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level, anyone will be able to immediately add years of healthy, active living to their life. Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading entrepreneurs, thinkers, and futurists. A recipient of the National Medial of Technology, among many other honors, he is the author of three previous books: The Age of Spiritual Machines, The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, and The Age of Intelligent Machines. Terry Grossman, M.D., is a certified anti-aging physician and an expert in longevity medicine. He is the author of The Baby Boomer's Guide to Living Forever For more information check out the Fantastic Voyage site To preview content from this title, click the links below: Sample pages Table of Contents Customer Reviews Avg. Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. A Great Start, 2004-11-30 01:33:37.0 Reviewer: Ben Taravella from Spring Valley, Ca. Ray Kurzweil does an excellent job of convincing the Baby Boomers of today, that truly help is on the way - if we can just live long enough for modern science to market some of the new nano-tech coming soon. I have implemented some of the suggestions given in this book and have lost twenty-seven pounds in just five weeks. I also lowered my blood pressure from 129/84 to 104/74! Not bad for a 47 year old American male.