The document provides tips and tricks for workflows. It discusses the author's background including education at Regis High School and an internship at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. It also mentions client input, desired results, and inspiration. Towards the end, it discusses Raymond Kurzweil and the idea of technological singularity.
48. Towards a
“Singularity” of
Intelligence
Raymond Kurzweil has been charging into the
future for nearly 40 years. As a teenager, in 1965,
he was honored by President Lyndon Johnson and
appeared on the TV show I've Got a Secret with
his homebuilt computer that composed music.
After graduating from MIT in 1970, Kurzweil
created a string of companies that developed and
sold breakthrough technologies: talking reading
machines for the blind, realistic-sounding digital
pianos, and voice-powered control software for
hands-free PC use. These days, he runs Kurzweil
Technologies, not far from MIT in suburban
Boston, juggling projects ranging from medical
learning tools to poetry-writing software.