奇人 Ray Kurzweil

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In 1999, Kurzweil created a hedge fund. The ultimate aim is to improve the ability to recognize patterns in currency fluctuations and stock-ownership trends. Kurzweil predicted in his 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, that computers will one day prove superior to the best human financial minds at making profitable investment decisions.

In June 2005, Kurzweil introduced a pocket-sized device consisting of a digital camera and computer unit. Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, it is designed to aid blind people by reading written text out loud, but it is portable and collects texts through captured digital camera images rather than flatbed scanning.

Kurzweil is currently making a movie due for release in 2008 called The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future.