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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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Steve Nadis
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Steve Nadis is a Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine. His articles have appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Popular Science, Technology Review, The Atlantic, and other magazines. He has written or contributed to more than two dozen books. He has also has been a staff researcher at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a research fellow at MIT, and a consultant to the World Resources Institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and WGBH/NOVA. A graduate of Hampshire College, Nadis lives in Cambridge, Mass., where he writes a humor column for the Cambridge Chronicle.
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