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WIRED AND THE 92ND STREET Y PRESENT

 

RAYMOND KURZWEIL

IN CONVERSATION WITH SPENCER REISS,

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, WIRED MAGAZINE

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2005

7:00 PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION

8:00 PM LECTURE

92ND STREET Y

LEXINGTON AVENUE AT 92ND STREET, NEW YORK CITY

 

An inventor almost from birth, Ray Kurzweil started his first company as a sophomore at MIT. He has founded nine businesses in such diverse fields as music synthesis, financial investment, and cybernetic art. His many inventions include the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind as well as the first computer-based instrument that can realistically recreate the sound of a grand piano.

 

Ray's most recent book, co-authored with Terry Grossman, M.D., is "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever" (Rodale, 2004). Among other honors, Ray received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, and the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor Hall of Fame.

 

During his appearance at the Y, Ray will talk about the acceleration of technology and its impact on culture, longevity, and society. He'll also update his predictions on the merging of humans and machines.

 

ADMISSION $25

 

For tickets and information, call 212.415.5500

or visit http://www.92Y.org

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if anyone here wants to get their nerd specs and tweed on,

i highly recommend this book-

Taking the Risk Out of Democracy by Alex Carey:

 

"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."

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