quoted 9 lines That reminds me of my favorite end-user-as-designer stories - Kurzweil> That reminds me of my favorite end-user-as-designer stories - Kurzweil
> sythesizers! (The way I remember it ) Before genius Ray Kurzweil made
> sythesizers (and now even afterwards) he designed & built reading
> machines for the blind. When client Stevie Wonder heard the way Ray's
> reading machine used his synthesis to produce artificial speech to read
> the books aloud, he encouraged Ray that he could expand the technique to
> create a musical instrument, and that started the line of Kurzweil
> synths.. Anyway Im sure I didnt mangle the facts too badly, thats the
> skinny anyway :)quoted 1 line check out (if you haven't already) kurzweil's fairly recent book, 'the spir>> check out (if you haven't already) kurzweil's fairly recent book, 'the spiritual age of machines' or maybe '...of computers,' i can't ever seem to remember titles. anyway, his premise is that due to organic and intellectual evolution, moore's law about exponential growth, and the sheer complexity of computing power, that we can expect to see fully sentient, self-aware computers (and hence, he proposes, intellectual, spiritual beings) integrating in even deeper ways into human society within the next 100 years. buy it or not, (and i do) he chronicles in detail (often in the first person realm of his own contributions) the development of computers and the intrinsic roles they play in our lives. a deep, MUST READ work!
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