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Peter S. Goodman

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Peter S. Goodman is the executive business editor of the Huffington Post Media Group. He was previously the national economic correspondent for The New York Times, a role in which he was among the earliest experts to warn that the nation was headed for a precipitous economic downturn. His coverage of the orgins of the financial crisis of 2008 was part of "The Reckoning," a Times' series that garnered a Gerald Loeb award--the so-called Pulitzer of business and economic reporting.Goodman previously spent a decade at the Washington Post--as the newspaper's Shanghai-based Asian economic correspondent...

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...