Innovators: Great tech innovators: Ray Kurzweil

Age: 67Company: GoogleBest known for: Future tech, AI, singularity, inventionsQuote: "The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating."Ray Kurzweil is a futurist – someone who studies the future and predicts where humankind is headed – or rather, perhaps it's better to say that he's the futurist. The one whose words and predictions are clung onto and heard in every corner of the tech industry.Kurzweil is lauded as one of the most influential thinkers of his generat