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Embrace Speaker Series presents
RAY KURZWEIL
Author, Inventor, Futurist
Toronto entertainment purveyors EMBRACEare proud to launch their Speakers Series with honoured guest RAY KURZWEIL on Thursday, October 18 at The Danforth Music Hall. Kurzweil will present his core thesis about the exponential growth of technology and it’s impact on life, health and communications followed by an audience Q&A.
RAY KURZWEIL will lecture about how computation, communication, biological technologies and human knowledge in general are all accelerating rapidly every year, and how important software insights will be gained in part from the reverse-engineering of the human brain. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose are considerable, Kurzweil will offer an inspiring vision of the ultimate destiny in which humans merge with their machines, are a billion times more intelligent and continue to live forever…all within the next three to four decades.
With a 25-year track record of accurate predictions, RAY KURZWEIL is one of the world’s leading inventors and futurists. Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first charge-coupled device flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition technology.
RAY KURZWEIL has also written four best-selling books including The Singularity is Near, which was a New York Times best-seller. His next book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, will be released November 13, 2012 by Viking.
Called the “restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, RAY KURZWEIL was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. Magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” Kurzweil is an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), 19 honorary doctorates and awards from three U.S. Presidents.
EMBRACE is a live music company that specializes in producing concerts, festivals, touring and sponsorships. Embrace was formed in 2003 and has produced over 2000 live events since it’s inception throughout North America and is regarded as an industry leader in cutting-edge music genres.
Embrace Speaker Series presents
RAY KURZWEIL
Thursday, October 18, 9pm
The Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
Tickets $35-$50, plus applicable taxes and service charges
Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.ca
or by phone at 1.855.985.5000
Posted by Terry Makedon
