VERO BEACH — What does the future look like? Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading inventors of our time, may have the answer. Kurzweil will share his thoughts on Innovation, Health and Medicine, Education, Business & Investing, Energy and Disabilities & Assistive Technologies at the Emerson Center Celebrated Speakers Series presentation on Saturday, March 6 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., sponsored by Marine Bank.
Described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes, Ray is one of the leading inventors of our time. He was the principal and first developer of the CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, Blio eReader software is the new touchstone for the presentation of electronic books & magazines and the commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Inc. Magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Among Ray’s many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the worlds largest for innovation. His latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. Don’t miss this thought provoking, long-term, big picture view of the future of technology and its implications for society.
Individual tickets are on sale at the Emerson Center. Individual tickets are $65 each. Student tickets for Kurzweil’s 7 p.m. performance are $25 for a balcony seat while they last. The series is presented by The Emerson Center at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach.
To purchase tickets, call 772-778-5249 visit TheEmersonCenter.org or visit The Emerson Center itself.