Ray Kurzweil

RAY KURZWEILMany think author, inventor and data scientist Ray Kurzweil is a prophetfor our digital age. Afew say he's completely nuts. Kurzweil, who heads a team of more than 40 as Google's director of engineering, believes advances in technology and medicine are pushing us toward what he calls the Singularity, a period of profound cultural and evolutionary change in which com­puters will outthink the brain and allow people—you, me, the guy with the man-bun ahead of you at Starbucks—to livefore...