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Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America."Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first...
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Michael Gross
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This book list is a work in progress. Michael Gross is recognized as one of America's most provocative writers of non-fiction-its "foremost chronicler of the upper-crust," says curbed. com. His latest book Unreal Estate, to be published November 1, 2011, is a west coast version of his bestseller, 740 Park, this time exposing the most exclusive neighborhoods of Los Angeles-Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, Bel Air and Beverly Park-and their residents. 740 Park, published in 2005, is the inside story of New York's richest, most prestigious cooperative apartment building. Built by James T. Lee, Jacqueline...
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