Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is a successful American author, futurist, and inventor. He showed interest in his field at an early age, and quickly strove. He wrote his first computer program at age 15, and took first place at the International Science Fair just two years later, for inventing the classical music synthesizing computer. In his second year of school at MIT he created a company that used computers to help high school students find good colleges for them. He eventually sold it and made quite a bit of profit, showing signs of what would be an extremely effective career.

Kurzweil went on to create and sell many more companies, and worked with many businesses such as Xerox and Hyundai. He also wrote a number of books including The Singularity Is Near in 2005.