We all may have owned or at least toyed with a Kurzweill keyboard at one time or another. I used one on one of my first records actually. Some people may not know that Kurzweill has also written some amazing books, like “The Age of Spiritual Machines". The concept of the book is that eventually computers exceed human intelligence. Which to most readers, does not seem possible, at least in our time. But through a series of essays and eventually the future time line, he does prove his point (at least in my non-Luddite mind).

I’m not sure where the guy comes up with this stuff. He’s either a genius or totally INSANE. His new book is even more bizarre, it’s titled “The Singularity is Near". a quote from the website:
‘"The Singularity” is a phrase borrowed from the astrophysics of black holes. The phrase has varied meanings; as used by Vernor Vinge and Raymond Kurzweil, it refers to the idea that accelerating technology will lead to superhuman machine intelligence that will soon exceed human intelligence, probably by the year 2030. The results on the other side of the “event horizon,” they say, are unpredictable. We’ll try anyway.’

Read more at: KurzweilAI.net