Abstract
This is Part I of a two-part interview with author and inventor Ray Kurzweil. His many books include The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Viking, 1999), The Singularity Is Near (Viking, 2005), and his most recent, co-authored with Terry Grossman, Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever (Rodale, 2009). He is the co-founder (along with X Prize Foundation chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis) of Singularity University.
A documentary film about Kurzweil, Transcendent Man, had its premiere in 2009, and Kurzweil's own movie version of The Singularity Is Near, featuring commentary from Marvin Minsky, Alvin Toffler, and others, is set to appear at film festivals in 2010. He is to be a keynote speaker at WorldFuture 2010.
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