Kurzweil's Kurves map death of PCs, complete reverse-engineering of the brain, and Matrix-like virtual reality

Summary: I've spent the last few days digesting a presentation given at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference by optical character recognition/speech recognition legend and National Inventors Hall of Famer Ray Kurzweil.

By David Berlind for Between the Lines | October 5, 2004 -- 16:02 GMT (09:02 PDT)

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I've spent the last few days digesting a presentation given at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference by optical character recognition/speech recognition legend and National Inventors Hall of Famer Ray Kurzweil.

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