Ray Kurzweil

He an author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in optimal character recognition. Kurzweil is recognized as a strong advocate of futurist and transhumanist movements. One of his main belief is extending human life through the combination of humans and machines. He was a strong believer in technological singularity, the idea that one day a superintelligence greater than humans will emerge. This is seen as an intellectual even horizon.