Ray Kurzweil is an accomplished inventor and entrepreneur. He’s had an amazingly productive career with multiple notable inventions and ventures in deeply technical fields. He started young: in 1963 at the age of 15 he wrote his first computer program. In Malcom Gladwell’s recent book Outliers he writes at great length about how unusual it was for Bill Gates to have access to a computer in the late 1960s, and how formative it was for him. So for Kurzweil to be writing software in 1963 was...
