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In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.
Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 12
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