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Ray Kurzweil from piano music composing computer in 1965 to Singularity University Executive Program Opening Address today

By runagate

If you don’t know who Ray Kurzweil is, here’s an introduction, from his youth to today.  Make Magazine found this video via Bruce Sterling:

“Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I’ve Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old. He made a computer that plays music, at the end of the video they show the computer.”

Then TechCrunch comes along and brings us this inspiring Kurzweil video from today:

“Over the last week Singularity University, an educational institution based at NASA Ames that draws some world’s top technologists and futurists, has been holding an Executive Program with the goal of preparing executives for the “imminent disruption and opportunities resulting from exponentially accelerating technologies”. The roster of instructors is impressive, with a number of top professors and executives covering fields ranging from stem cells to robotics.

Singularity has been posting a series of articles from reporters who have been attending the event, and over the course of the next few days we’ll be posting full videos of the lectures, as well as some 1-on-1 interviews with the instructors. You’ll be able to find these videos by clicking the ‘Singularity University’ logo in the right sidebar, or by clicking this link.

Here’s a list of the instructors who have been presenting over the course of the event, which runs through Sunday (we’ll be posting the videos for a few days after that, as there’s a delay in getting them uploaded).”

Hopefully this gives some perspective on the Digital Shiv philosophy that those with below-average resources are becoming more and more able to effectively disrupt stagnant patterns in the world around us.  Certainly Kurzweil himself has made great contributions to our current state of having access to musical creation resources.

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