Ray Kurzweil


Recent Articles about Ray Kurzweil

The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation

Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues.  Read more

Talking Machine

A forward-looking conversation with technology entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil.  Read more

Talking Machine

A forward-looking conversation with technology entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil.  Read more

Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies and other companies

because he is Edison's rightful heir  Read more

"The Singularity" is Here

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He's founded nine companies, which work on everything from speech recognition to artificial intelligence. In Read more

Ready and Willing, But Are You Enabled?

In America we are taught that we make, shape, and create our own destinies. It's a religion with particular standing among entrepreneurs, who have fled ...  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Ray Kurzweil

because he is Edison's rightful heir  Read more

Mail

Technology for Everyone I am blind, and I just finished reading the February issue of Inc. , not with the hand-held scanner that Ray Kurz...  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Muriel Siebert

for rewriting the rules for husband-and-wife teams  Read more

Get Money Now and the Future of Skype

The business of pogo sticks . Looking for something to do this weekend? Try competitive pogoing. Over the past decade, there has been a burst of inn...  Read more

In Memoriam

They sold us surfboards and sports cars, Linux, chicken, Miracle-Gro, and vacations among the Eskimo. A fond look back at the remarkable entrepreneurs who di...  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Jack Mitchell

for rewriting the rules for husband-and-wife teams  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Katrina Markoff

for setting a completely unreasonable goal for her business  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Barry Steinberg Craig Sumerel

for staging an elegant comeback  Read more

Ray Kurzweil: How to Predict the Future

A good sense of timing is key to success. Fortunately, it's easier to see the future--and to plan for it--than you may think.  Read more

Editor's Letter

My friend Andy launched a successful business in college, wrote a number of bestsellers in his twenties and thirties, and entered the worlds of philanthro...  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Diane von Furstenberg

for staging an elegant comeback  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Mark Melton

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Craig Newmark

for putting the em free /em in free markets  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Victoria Parham

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Mike Lazaridis

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Warren Brown

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Michael Dell

for being brilliantly straightforward  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Chuck Porter

for being brilliantly straightforward  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Izzy Coco Tihanyi

for offering hope and help to the parents of autistic children  Read more

The Silicon Valley of South America?

To spur innovation, Chile is offering American start-ups $40,000 in seed funding.  Read more

Book Value

Several new books purport to offer readers a more fulfilling life. The common theme? If you're not happy, it's your own damn fault.  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Trip Hawkins

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Michelle Cardinal Tim O'Leary

for rewriting the rules for husband-and-wife teams  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Fritz Maytag

for staging an elegant comeback  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Rueben Martinez

for rewriting the rules for husband-and-wife teams  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Frank Robinson

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Mitchell Gold Bob Williams

for offering hope and help to the parents of autistic children  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Tom LaTour

Recycling cell phones for profit.  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Tony Lee

for saving 16 jobs, including his own  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Jim Sinegal

because only in America will someone quit a secure job as a lawyer to start a bakery  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Julie Azuma

for offering hope and help to the parents of autistic children  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Richard Branson

Just for her: Fashionable laptop cases designed for jet-set female execs.  Read more

Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ...  Read more