Ray kurzweil

People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these...

Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right...

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.